Title: Protecting Students’ Civil Rights Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Protecting Students' Civil Rights Act
This bill requires institutions of higher education (IHEs) to take certain actions to ensure compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in federally funded programs or activities.
Specifically, the bill requires an IHE to designate at least one employee to coordinate compliance with federal civil rights.
In addition, an IHE must (1) annually submit to the Department of Education a report that includes all complaints alleging discrimination and make such report publicly available; and (2) provide students and employees with the contact information of the designated employee, the report, the enforcement policies of the IHE, and the procedures for reporting and investigating complaints.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5685 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5685

 To require institutions of higher education to designate at least one 
employee to coordinate compliance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act 
                    of 1964, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2021

Mr. Aguilar (for himself, Miss Gonzalez-Colon, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Clarke 
 of New York, and Mr. Carson) introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require institutions of higher education to designate at least one 
employee to coordinate compliance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act 
                    of 1964, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Students' Civil Rights 
Act''.

SEC. 2. COMPLIANCE WITH THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.

    Section 487(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1094(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(30) The institution will--
                    ``(A) designate at least one employee to coordinate 
                compliance with title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 
                1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.), including any 
                investigation of any complaint alleging--
                            ``(i) noncompliance with such title; and
                            ``(ii) any actions prohibited by such 
                        title;
                    ``(B) annually submit a report to the Secretary 
                that includes all complaints described in subparagraph 
                (A) with respect to such institution;
                    ``(C) make the report under subparagraph (B) 
                publicly available on the internet website of the 
                institution; and
                    ``(D) notify students and employees of--
                            ``(i) the name, office address, and 
                        telephone number of each employee designated 
                        under subparagraph (A);
                            ``(ii) the report under subparagraph (B);
                            ``(iii) the enforcement policies of the 
                        institution with respect to such title; and
                            ``(iv) the procedure for reporting and 
                        investigating complaints under such title.''.
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