I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2637 
To provide for disclosure of fire safety standards and measures with respect 
to campus buildings, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 25, 2005 
Mr. PASCRELL (for himself, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. WELDON of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. PETRI, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. 
LAHOOD, Mr. BROWN of South Carolina, Mr. WALSH, Mr. WHITFIELD, 
Mr. BOOZMAN, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. 
SKELTON, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. ANDREWS, Mrs. MCCARTHY, Mr. OWENS, 
Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. HOLT, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. 
CAPUANO, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. CLAY, Mr. HOLDEN, 
Mr. KUCINICH, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. GRIJALVA, and Mrs. MALONEY) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To provide for disclosure of fire safety standards and meas-
ures with respect to campus buildings, and for other 
purposes. 
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 Fire Safety 
Right-to-Know Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF FIRE SAFETY OF CAMPUS BUILD-
INGS. 
Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1092) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (N); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
subparagraph (O) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(P) the fire safety report prepared by the in-
stitution pursuant to subsection (h).’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(h) DISCLOSURE OF FIRE SAFETY STANDARDS AND 
MEASURES.— 
‘‘(1) ANNUAL
FIRE
SAFETY
REPORTS
RE-
QUIRED.—Each eligible institution participating in 
any program under this title shall, beginning in the 
first academic year that begins after the date of en-
actment of the Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know 
Act of 2005, and each year thereafter, prepare, pub-
lish, and distribute, through appropriate publications 
(including the Internet) or mailings, to all current 
students and employees, and to any applicant for en-
rollment or employment upon request, an annual fire 
safety report. Such reports shall contain at least the 
following information with respect to the campus fire 
safety practices and standards of that institution: 
‘‘(A) A statement that identifies each uni-
versity owned or controlled student housing fa-
cility, and whether or not that facility is 
equipped with a fire sprinkler system or other 
fire safety systems, fire escape planning or pro-
tocols, or both. 
‘‘(B) Statistics for each student housing 
facility concerning the occurrence of fires and 
false alarms in each facility, during the 2 pre-
ceding calendar years for which data are avail-
able. 
‘‘(C) For each such occurrence in facilities 
described in subparagraphs (A) and (B), a sum-
mary of the human injuries or deaths, struc-
tural and property damage, or combination 
thereof. 
‘‘(D) Information regarding rules on port-
able electrical appliances, smoking and open 
flames (such as candles), regular mandatory su-
pervised fire drills, and planned and future im-
provements in fire safety.
‘‘(E) Information about fire safety edu-
cation and training provided to students, fac-
ulty, and staff. 
‘‘(F) Information concerning fire safety at 
any housing facilities owned or controlled by 
student groups that are recognized by the insti-
tution, including any student fraternity and so-
rority houses, including— 
‘‘(i) information reported to the insti-
tution under paragraph (4); and 
‘‘(ii) a statement concerning whether 
and how the institution works with recog-
nized student fraternities and sororities, 
and other recognized student groups own-
ing housing facilities, to make building and 
property owned or controlled by such fra-
ternities or sororities more fire safe. 
‘‘(2) FRATERNITIES
AND
SORORITIES.—Each 
institution participating in a program under this 
title shall request each fraternity and sorority that 
is recognized by the institution, and any other stu-
dent group that is recognized by the university and 
that owns or controls housing facilities, to collect 
and report to the institution the information de-
scribed in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of para-
graph (1), as applied to the fraternity, sorority, or 
recognized student group, for each building and 
property owned or controlled by the fraternity, so-
rority, or group respectively. 
‘‘(3) CURRENT INFORMATION TO CAMPUS COM-
MUNITY.—Each institution participating in any pro-
gram under this title shall make, keep, and maintain 
a log, written in a form that can be easily under-
stood, recording all on-campus fires, including the 
nature, date, time, and general location of each fire 
and all false fire alarms. All entries that are re-
quired pursuant to this paragraph shall, except 
where disclosure of such information is prohibited by 
law, be open to public inspection, and each such in-
stitution shall make annual reports to the campus 
community on such fires and false fire alarms in a 
manner that will aid the prevention of similar occur-
rences. 
‘‘(4) REPORTS TO SECRETARY.—On an annual 
basis, each institution participating in any program 
under this title shall submit to the Secretary a copy 
of the statistics required to be made available under 
paragraph (1)(B). The Secretary shall— 
‘‘(A) review such statistics;