IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1332 
Expressing support for the designation of September 2022 as National 
Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 
Ms. NORTON submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Oversight and Reform 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for the designation of September 2022 
as National Campus Sexual Assault Awareness Month. 
Whereas colleges and universities are now receiving students 
in person for the academic year; 
Whereas the overall rate of nonconsensual sexual contact is 
13.0 percent; 
Whereas freshmen and sophomores in college are at a greater 
risk of being sexually assaulted than juniors or seniors; 
Whereas college students are at a higher risk of sexual as-
sault during the first few months of school, with more 
than 50 percent of college sexual assaults occurring in ei-
ther August, September, October, or November; 
Whereas the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
warns that both middle school and high school students 
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are increasingly experiencing sexual harassment, sexual 
assault, and sexual violence, with nearly 35 percent of fe-
male sexual assault survivors reporting that they were 
first attacked between the ages of 11 and 17; 
Whereas many college students are survivors of ‘‘incapaci-
tated assault’’, in which they are sexually assaulted while 
drugged, drunk, passed out, or otherwise incapacitated; 
Whereas these survivors often know their attackers; 
Whereas less than 5 percent of rapes and attempted rapes of 
college students are reported to campus authorities or 
local law enforcement; 
Whereas college sexual assault survivors are likely to tell 
someone they know, most often a friend, about their ex-
perience; 
Whereas 40 percent of college sexual assault survivors fear 
reprisal by the perpetrator; 
Whereas less than 5 percent of college men account for 90 
to 95 percent of the rapes on college campuses; 
Whereas many college sexual assault survivors fear poor 
treatment by campus or law enforcement authorities, or 
even lack knowledge of the reporting process; 
Whereas approximately 8 percent of colleges and universities 
still do not allow confidential reporting of sexual assaults 
to campus authorities; 
Whereas 21 percent of colleges and universities provide no 
sexual assault response training for members of their fac-
ulty and staff; 
Whereas approximately 41 percent of colleges and universities 
have not conducted a single sexual assault investigation 
in the last 5 years; 
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Whereas most colleges and universities fail to provide access 
to a specially trained Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner; 
Whereas law enforcement officials at 30 percent of colleges 
and universities receive no training on how to respond to 
reports of sexual violence; 
Whereas more than 70 percent of colleges and universities do 
not have protocols regarding how the institution and local 
law enforcement should work together to respond to sex-
ual violence; 
Whereas 33 percent of colleges and universities fail to provide 
training to dispel ‘‘rape myths’’ to persons adjudicating 
sexual assault claims; 
Whereas 43 percent of the Nation’s largest colleges and uni-
versities have students assisting in adjudicating sexual 
assault cases, which creates privacy and conflict-of-inter-
est concerns; 
Whereas 22 percent of colleges and universities allow athletic 
department oversight of sexual violence cases involving 
student athletes; 
Whereas many college sexual assault survivors experience 
confusion over how to report a sexual assault, are unsure 
of acceptable standards of sexual conduct and definitions 
of rape and sexual assault, and fear punishment for ac-
tivities preceding some sexual assaults, such as underage 
drinking; 
Whereas 21 percent of the Nation’s largest private colleges 
and universities report not independently investigating all 
claims of sexual assault that they conveyed to the De-
partment of Education; 
Whereas only approximately 13 percent of the perpetrators of 
college sexual assaults are permanently expelled; 
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