Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires public colleges and universities to include material on affirmative consent for its students in its orientation packages.

Highlights:

• Requires post-secondary education institutions to adopt affirmative consent standards (Sec.1). 

• Establishes that consent can never be given by a party who is asleep, unconscious, or incapacitated (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits consent from being given through implication, assumption, or inferral (Sec. 1) 

• Requires protection in any investigation of offending conduct of the witnesses and parties involved (Sec.1). 

• Requires a training program for employees or contractors involved in investigating offending conduct and every incoming student’s orientation (Sec 1). 

• Establishes awareness prevention programs: empowerment programming, awareness-raising campaigns, primary prevention, bystander intervention and risk reduction (Sec. 1). 

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires public colleges and universities to include material on affirmative consent for its students in its orientation packages.

Highlights:

• Requires post-secondary education institutions to adopt affirmative consent standards (Sec.1). 

• Establishes that consent can never be given by a party who is asleep, unconscious, or incapacitated (Sec. 1). 

• Prohibits consent from being given through implication, assumption, or inferral (Sec. 1) 

• Requires protection in any investigation of offending conduct of the witnesses and parties involved (Sec.1). 

• Requires a training program for employees or contractors involved in investigating offending conduct and every incoming student’s orientation (Sec 1). 

• Establishes awareness prevention programs: empowerment programming, awareness-raising campaigns, primary prevention, bystander intervention and risk reduction (Sec. 1). 

Full Bill Text