penalty shall not interfere with the Secretary’s or 
Attorney General’s ability to enter into a voluntary 
resolution agreement with an institution of higher 
education. 
‘‘(2) ADJUSTMENT TO PENALTIES.—Any civil 
penalty under paragraph (1) may be modified by the 
Secretary of Education or Attorney General. In de-
termining the amount of such penalty, or the 
amount agreed upon in compromise, the appro-
priateness of the penalty to the size of the operating 
budget of the educational institution subject to the 
determination, and the gravity of the violation or 
failure, and whether the violation or failure was done 
intentionally, negligently, or otherwise, shall be con-
sidered. 
‘‘(3) DISTRIBUTION.—Any civil monetary pen-
alty or monetary settlement collected under this sub-
section shall be transferred to the Office for Civil 
Rights of the Department of Education or the De-
partment of Justice to be used for purposes of en-
forcing the provisions of this title related to sexual 
harassment. 
‘‘(4) CLARIFICATION.—Nothing in the Campus 
Accountability and Safety Act, or any amendment 
made by such Act, shall alter, amend, or interfere 
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with the rights and remedies provided for and avail-
able under this title. 
‘‘(g) STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.—An individual may 
file a complaint for a violation of this title, with regards 
to sexual violence, with the Office for Civil Rights of the 
Department of Education not later than 180 days after 
the date of graduation or disaffiliation with the institution. 
‘‘(h) SUBPOENA AND CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE DEMAND 
AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORITY TO COMPEL.—In order to ob-
tain information and documents that are relevant to 
determining compliance with this title, including any 
regulations promulgated to carry out this title, the 
Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil Rights of 
the Department of Education and the Assistant At-
torney General of the Civil Rights Division of the 
Department of Justice are authorized to require by 
subpoena the attendance and testimony of any per-
son that one can reasonably believe to have first- 
hand knowledge, including current and former stu-
dents and employees of institutions of higher edu-
cation, and the production of documents, including 
reports, answers, records, accounts, papers, and 
other data in any medium (including electronically 
stored information), and any tangible thing. 
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‘‘(2) REFUSAL TO OBEY.—A subpoena issued 
under this subsection, in the case of contumacy or 
refusal to obey, shall be enforceable by order of any 
appropriate United States district court. 
‘‘(3) CIVIL INVESTIGATIVE DEMAND AUTHOR-
ITY.—The Assistant Secretary of the Office for Civil 
Rights of the Department of Education and the As-
sistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division 
of the Department of Justice shall have civil inves-
tigative demand authority, which authorizes the re-
quest for documents of the institutions and written 
answers to interrogatories in order to determine 
compliance with title IX. 
‘‘(i) COORDINATOR.—Each educational institution 
that receives Federal financial assistance from the Depart-
ment of Education shall submit, annually, to the Office 
for Civil Rights of the Department of Education and the 
Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, the 
name of the title IX coordinator of the institution, includ-
ing a brief description of the coordinator’s role and the 
roles of other officials of the institution who may be con-
tacted to discuss or report sexual violence, and documenta-
tion of training received by the title IX coordinator. The 
educational institution shall provide updated information 
to the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Edu-
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cation and the Civil Rights Division of the Department 
of Justice not later than 30 days after the date of any 
change.’’. 
SEC. 7. TRAINING FOR CAMPUS PERSONNEL ON VICTIM- 
CENTERED TRAUMA-INFORMED (FORENSIC) 
INTERVIEWS. 
Section 304 of the Violence Against Women and De-
partment of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (42 
U.S.C. 14045b) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘$300,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$500,000’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(11) To train campus personnel in conducting 
victim-centered, trauma-informed (forensic) inter-
views.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (g)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘In this section’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—In this section’’; 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) 
VICTIM-CENTERED, 
TRAUMA-INFORMED 
(FORENSIC) INTERVIEW.—In this section, the term 
‘victim-centered, trauma-informed (forensic) inter-
view’ means an evidence-based interview focused on 
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the experience of the victim, conducted by a trained 
forensic interviewer, in which the goal of the inter-
view is to elicit information about the traumatic 
event in question for use in a future investigation. 
The victim shall be given the option to have the 
interview recorded and to receive a copy of the re-
corded interview. The victim shall be informed of the 
reasons why the victim may or may not choose to 
have the interview recorded.’’. 
Æ 
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