NY State Senate Bill 2025-S3896

Senate Bill S3896

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to compliance with federal reporting standards for incidences of sexual assault on SUNY and CUNY campuses

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

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2025-S3896 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §6433, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: S7954
2015-2016: S1772
2017-2018: S3082
2019-2020: S4374
2021-2022: S4422
2023-2024: S5149

2025-S3896 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to compliance with federal reporting standards for incidences of sexual assault on SUNY and CUNY campuses.

2025-S3896 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S3896

SPONSOR: PARKER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to documenting campus
sexual assault and related complaints at SUNY and CUNY institutions

 
PURPOSE:

To address the alarming increase of sexual assaults on public university
and college campuses.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Section 6433 of the education law, as added by chapter597 of
the laws of 2003, is amended.

Section 2: This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.

JUSTIFICATION:

The New York State Coalition against Sexual Assault, reports that:

* At least 1 in 4 college women will be the victim of a sexual assault
during her academic career;

* At least 80% of all sexual assaults are committed by an acquaintance;

* More than 70% of rape victims knew their attackers, compared to about
half of all violent crime victims;

* There are 35.3 incidents of sexual assault per 1,000 female students
on a campus The NYS Office of Domestic and Sexual Violence and the NYS
Office of Victim Services have reported that Intimate Partner Violence,
sexual assault, and stalking are widespread on college campuses and that
they may occur one at a time or concurrently.  Moreover these offices
report that nearly 89% of females reported experiencing at least one
incident of physical or sexual aggression by the end of college and that
42% of the stalking incidences reported by college women were perpe-
trated by a current or former partner.

Sexual assaults on and around college campuses, are a vastly under-re-
ported crime. As of 2013, under new federal guidelines, colleges were
required for the first time to compile and disclose the number of
reports of dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking on their
campuses.

This bill codifies the requirement for public universities, colleges and
institutions in New York State to report these incidents.  Moreover,
this bill but moreover makes the reporting of incidents a consumer
Information tool for students in determining the Institution of higher
learning they will attend.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-24: 55149- Referred to Higher Education

2021-22: S4422 - Referred to Higher Education

2019-20: S4374 -Referred to Higher Education

2017-18: S3082 -Referred to Higher Education

2015-15: S.1772- Referred to Higher Education

2013-14: S.7954- Referred to Rules

 
FISCAL IMPACT ON STATE:

N/A

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become a law.

2025-S3896 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3896
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  documenting  campus
   sexual assault and related complaints at SUNY and CUNY institutions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 6433 of the education law, as added by chapter  191
 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   §  6433.  Campus  crime  reporting and statistics. 1. (A) Each college
 that receives state aid shall indicate on their website  how  to  access
 the  campus  crime  statistics  that  are filed annually with the United
 States Department of Education as required under Title 20  of  the  U.S.
 Code Section 1092(f).
   (B) The information on each college's website shall include the United
 States  Department  of  Education's  website  address  for  campus crime
 statistics and a link to statistics for that college. Each college shall
 report and post incidents of hate crime offenses as a separate,  clearly
 designated category on their website.
   2.  The  president  or  chief  administrative  officer of each college
 shall, working with the advisory  committee  on  campus  safety,  inform
 students  and  prospective students of the existence of the campus crime
 statistics and other campus safety policies and procedures  as  part  of
 the college's onboarding process.
   3.  THE  PRESIDENT  OR  ADMINISTRATIVE  OFFICER  OF EACH SUNY AND CUNY
 INSTITUTION SHALL APPOINT OR DESIGNATE AN EMPLOYEE WITH AT LEAST A BACH-
 ELOR'S DEGREE IN NURSING, PSYCHOLOGY OR SOCIAL WORK WHO SHALL BE RESPON-
 SIBLE FOR COORDINATING COMPLIANCE WITH TITLE IX OF THE EDUCATION  AMEND-
 MENTS  OF  1972  (20 U.S.C. SECTION 1681, ET.  SEQ.) AND TITLE 20 OF THE
 U.S. CODE SECTION 1092(F), AND CREATING  AND/OR  MANAGING  A  SEARCHABLE
 DATABASE  CATALOGUING  THE  STATUS  OF ALL COMPLAINTS, REVIEWS, INVESTI-
 GATIONS, AND RESOLUTIONS BROUGHT TO SUCH INSTITUTION'S  ATTENTION  UNDER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06757-01-5

 S. 3896                             2
 
 THESE  PROVISIONS.  SUCH DATABASE SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE ON THE STUDENT
 LIFE WEB PAGE OF EVERY SUNY AND CUNY INSTITUTION, AND SHALL BE  ACCESSI-
 BLE  BY AN ACTIVE LINK FROM SUCH INSTITUTION'S HOME PAGE BETWEEN SEPTEM-
 BER FIRST AND MAY FIRST OF EACH YEAR.
   4.  THE CHANCELLOR OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL DEVELOP A
 STANDARDIZED, ANONYMOUS SURVEY OF INCIDENCES OF ON-CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT
 THAT SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO EACH SUNY INSTITUTION AND SHALL BE ADMINIS-
 TERED BY SUCH INSTITUTIONS EACH MID-SEMESTER.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS
 SUBDIVISION,  "SEXUAL ASSAULT" SHALL MEAN ANY SEX OFFENSE IN ARTICLE ONE
 HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW.
   5. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL  DEVELOP  A
 STANDARDIZED, ANONYMOUS SURVEY OF INCIDENCES OF ON-CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT
 THAT SHALL BE DISTRIBUTED TO EACH CUNY INSTITUTION AND SHALL BE ADMINIS-
 TERED  BY SUCH INSTITUTIONS EACH MID-SEMESTER.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION, "SEXUAL ASSAULT" SHALL MEAN ANY SEX OFFENSE IN ARTICLE  ONE
 HUNDRED THIRTY OF THE PENAL LAW.
   6. FAILURE OF A SUNY OR CUNY INSTITUTION TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS
 OF  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  RESULT IN THE SUSPENSION OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND
 OPERATIONS FUNDS CONTRIBUTED BY THE STATE PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IN  NO
 CASE  SHALL  SUCH  SUSPENSION RESULT IN A REDUCTION OR IN ANY WAY AFFECT
 THE PORTION OF SUCH INSTITUTION'S BUDGET ALLOCATED FOR STUDENT  SERVICES
 AND ALL FACULTY SALARY.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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