Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act

Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require institutions of higher education to adopt and implement plans providing for prompt and coordinated investigations with local law enforcement agencies of: (1) serious violent felonies occurring at the institutions or on their grounds; and (2) reports of missing students.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 225 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 225

   To require investigations by institutions of higher education of 
                 violent felonies occurring on campus.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 4, 2005

  Mr. Sweeney (for himself and Mr. McNulty) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
                               Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require investigations by institutions of higher education of 
                 violent felonies occurring on campus.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

     This Act may be cited as the ``Suzanne Lyall Campus Safety Act''.

SEC. 2. INVESTIGATIONS BY INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION OF VIOLENT 
              FELONIES.

     Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(g) Investigation of Serious Violent Felonies.--
            ``(1) Plans for investigation of serious violent 
        felonies.--Each institution of higher education shall, within 
        one year after the date of enactment of the Suzanne Lyall 
        Campus Safety Act, adopt and implement a plan providing for the 
        investigation of any serious violent felony occurring at or on 
        the grounds of each such institution, and providing for the 
        investigation of a report of any missing student. Such plans 
        shall provide for the coordination of the investigation of such 
        crimes and reports with local law enforcement agencies. Such 
        plans shall include, but not be limited to, written agreements 
        with appropriate local law enforcement agencies providing for 
        the prompt investigation of such crimes and reports.
            ``(2) Definitions.--As used in this subsection:
                    ``(A) Local law enforcement agencies.--The term 
                `local law enforcement agencies' means any agency or 
                agencies employing peace officers or police officers 
                for the enforcement of the laws of a State, and which 
                has or have jurisdiction under provisions of the 
                criminal procedure law over offenses occurring at or on 
                the grounds of any institution subject to the 
                provisions of this subsection.
                    ``(B) Missing student.--The term `missing student' 
                means any student of an institution subject to the 
                provisions of this subsection who resides in a facility 
                owned or operated by such institution and who is 
                reported to such institution as missing from his or her 
                residence.
                    ``(C) Serious violent felony.--The term `serious 
                violent felony' means a serious violent felony as such 
                term is defined by section 3559(c) of title 18, United 
                States Code.''.
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