I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5157 
To ensure that certain incidents involving a covered employee that are re-
ported to the title IX coordinator at an eligible institution of higher 
education have been reviewed by the president of the institution and 
not less than 1 additional member of the institution’s board of trustees, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 5, 2018 
Mr. BISHOP of Michigan (for himself and Mr. SCHNEIDER) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce 
A BILL 
To ensure that certain incidents involving a covered employee 
that are reported to the title IX coordinator at an eligible 
institution of higher education have been reviewed by 
the president of the institution and not less than 1 
additional member of the institution’s board of trustees, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Accountability of Lead-
ers in Education to Report Title IX Investigations Act’’ 
or the ‘‘ALERT Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REVIEW OF TITLE IX INVESTIGATIONS. 
Section 487 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1094) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(30)(A) The institution will submit an annual 
certification to the Secretary affirming that— 
‘‘(i) the president of the institution (or the 
equivalent officer) and not less than 1 addi-
tional member of the institution’s board of 
trustees (or a designee of the board) have com-
pleted a comprehensive review of any incident 
involving a covered employee that was reported 
to the title IX coordinator at that institution in 
the previous 12 months involving an offense de-
scribed in section 485(f)(8)(A)(i); and 
‘‘(ii) the individuals described in clause (i) 
who completed the comprehensive review did 
not interfere with or influence any investigation 
or disposition relating to the reported incident. 
‘‘(B) In this paragraph— 
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‘‘(i) the term ‘comprehensive review’ means 
a review that includes, at a minimum, a review 
of— 
‘‘(I) material findings of fact relating 
to the incident that was reported to the 
title IX coordinator; 
‘‘(II) the basis for any conclusions 
about whether a covered employee violated 
a policy of the institution; and 
‘‘(III) the disposition of any com-
plaints arising from the reported incident, 
including any sanctions imposed on a cov-
ered employee; 
‘‘(ii) the term ‘covered employee’— 
‘‘(I) means— 
‘‘(aa) a full time employee of the 
institution; or 
‘‘(bb) an individual who was act-
ing as an employee of the institution, 
or who was paid by an entity con-
tracting with the institution and act-
ing on behalf of the institution, at the 
time of the incident that was reported 
to the title IX coordinator; and 
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‘‘(II) does not include an under-
graduate student; and 
‘‘(iii) the term ‘title IX coordinator’ means 
a responsible employee, as described in section 
106.8(a) of title 34, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, designated to coordinate efforts under 
title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 
(20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.).’’. 
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