I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2016 
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve education and 
prevention related to campus sexual violence, domestic violence, dating 
violence, and stalking. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 26, 2011 
Mrs. MALONEY (for herself, Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. COSTA, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. GRIJALVA, and Mrs. MCCARTHY of New York) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to improve 
education and prevention related to campus sexual vio-
lence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Campus Sexual Vio-
lence Elimination Act’’ or the ‘‘Campus SaVE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Between 20 and 25 percent of female stu-
dents will experience some form of sexual assault 
during their years at an institution of higher edu-
cation, and nearly 3 percent of all such women be-
come victims of either attempted or completed rape 
in each 9-month academic year. 
(2) Multiple studies indicate that lesbian, gay, 
bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students are 
more likely to experience violence and threats of vio-
lence, including sexual violence, than their non- 
LGBT peers. 
(3) Between 85 and 90 percent of reported sex-
ual assaults against female students at institutions 
of higher education are perpetrated by someone 
known to the victim, and nearly half of such sexual 
assaults occur on a date. 
(4) Less than 5 percent of rapes or attempted 
rapes of female students at institutions of higher 
education are reported to campus authorities or law 
enforcement. In 2009, only 2,578 forcible sex of-
fenses and 68 non-forcible sex offenses that occurred 
on the campus of a 2-year or 4-year institution of 
higher education were reported, among 8,476 2-year 
and 4-year public and private institutions of higher 
education. 
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(5) Students are more likely to report a sexual 
assault when they know how to report a sexual as-
sault and how a school will respond if such a report 
is made, yet fewer than half of the institutions of 
higher education in the United States have written 
policies for filing criminal charges and campus re-
ports related to sexual assault. 
(6) Only 1⁄3 of the institutions of higher edu-
cation in the United States report their crime statis-
tics correctly, resulting in statistics in which in-
stances of sexual assault have been misclassified and 
underrepresented. Less than half of all institutions 
of higher education in the United States offer any 
sexual assault training, and such training is often 
provided only for resident advisers and security offi-
cers. 
(7) Thirty-six percent of institutions of higher 
education offer safety training that includes teaching 
students how to prevent and defend against sexual 
assault. 
(8) Less than 20 percent of institutions of high-
er education educate students about acquaintance 
rape, and less than half of 4-year public institutions 
do so. 
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(9) According to campus administrators, the re-
porting of sexual assaults would be facilitated if in-
stitutions of higher education provided services for 
victims, written law enforcement response proce-
dures, new student orientation, and campus-wide 
publicity about past crimes. 
(10) While dating, domestic, and sexual violence 
affect women regardless of their age, teens and 
young women are especially vulnerable. 
(11) Women of all ages are at risk for domestic 
and sexual violence, and women ages 20 to 24 are 
at the greatest risk of experiencing nonfatal intimate 
partner violence. 
(12) Individuals ages 18 and 19 experience the 
highest rates of stalking. 
SEC. 3. CAMPUS SEXUAL VIOLENCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, 
DATING 
VIOLENCE, 
AND 
STALKING 
EDU-
CATION AND PREVENTION. 
Section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1092(f)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘on August 1, 1991, 
begin to’’; and 
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(ii) by striking ‘‘beginning September 
1, 1992, and each year thereafter,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘, by October 1 of each year,’’; 
(B) by striking subparagraph (A) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(A) A statement of current campus policies re-
garding procedures and facilities for students, em-
ployees, and others in the campus community to re-
port criminal actions or other emergencies occurring 
on campus, on public property, and in or on non-
campus buildings or property, and policies con-
cerning the institution’s response to such reports.’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (C)(iii), by striking 
the period at the end and adding at the end ‘‘, 
when the victim of such crime elects to make 
such a report.’’; 
(D) in subparagraph (F)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of 
clause (i)(IX); 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
of clause (ii) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iii) of domestic violence, dating violence, 
and stalking incidents that were reported to 
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campus security authorities or local police agen-
cies.’’; and 
(E) in subparagraph (I), by striking ‘‘sec-
tion 170101(j)’’ through the end, and inserting 
‘‘the Jacob Wetterling, Megan Nicole Kanka, 
and Pam Lychner Sex Offender Registration 
and Notification Program established under the 
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 
2006 (42 U.S.C. 16901 et seq.) concerning reg-
istered sex offenders enrolled or working at the 
institution may be obtained, such as the law en-
forcement office of the institution, a local law 
enforcement agency with jurisdiction for the 
campus, or a Web site.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘, that with-
holds the names of victims as confidential,’’ after 
‘‘that is timely’’; 
(3) in paragraph (5)(A), by striking ‘‘Sep-
tember 1, 2000’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 
2012’’; 
(4) by striking paragraph (6)(A) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(6)(A) In this subsection: 
‘‘(i) The term ‘awareness program’ means any 
program designed to alert students at an institution 
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