Clery Compliance Officer Designation Act of 2020

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6031 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6031

To require eligible institutions under title IV of the Higher Education 
     Act of 1965 to designate a Clery Compliance Officer to ensure 
  compliance with the requirements of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of 
        Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2020

 Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire (for herself and Mr. Stauber) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                               and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To require eligible institutions under title IV of the Higher Education 
     Act of 1965 to designate a Clery Compliance Officer to ensure 
  compliance with the requirements of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of 
        Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

    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 ``Clery Compliance Officer Designation 
Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. CLERY COMPLIANCE OFFICER REQUIRED.

    Section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1092(f)), is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (18) as paragraph (19); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (17) the following:
    ``(18) Each eligible institution participating in any program under 
this title, other than a foreign institution of higher education, 
shall, beginning on January 1, 2022, and each year thereafter, 
designate at least one Clery Compliance Officer who shall--
            ``(A) carry out the responsibilities associated with the 
        information collection requirements of this subsection; and
            ``(B) in accordance with paragraph (5), submit to the 
        Secretary a copy of the statistics required to be made 
        available under paragraph (1)(F).''.
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