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119-hr-10761119th CongressWALLET

Campus Accountability and Safety Act of 2026

Sponsored By: Representative Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17]

Introduced

Summary

This bill would expand the Clery Act to require stronger campus safety reporting and survivor-centered services. It would add detailed public crime metrics, create campus sexual and interpersonal violence (CSIV) specialists, standardize disciplinary processes, and increase Department of Education transparency and technical support.

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  • Students and survivors would gain designated CSIV specialists for confidential, trauma-informed support, optional anonymous reporting, and amnesty protections. Training materials for specialists must be developed within 1 year and institution-wide training must follow per the Secretary's schedule.
  • Colleges receiving federal funds must publish clear, multilingual campus safety information online, disclose memoranda of understanding with law enforcement, and add new crime categories plus detailed metrics to annual security reports one year after enactment.
  • Schools must use uniform, campus-wide disciplinary processes, train Title IX and grievance staff in trauma-informed procedures, and keep specialists separate from investigators and Title IX coordinators.
  • Noncompliant institutions can face civil penalties up to 1 percent of their operating budget per year. The bill adds sexual harassment to DOJ campus violence grants and requires a GAO report within 2 years.

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

5 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Trained campus violence specialists

If enacted, your college would have to name one or more trained sexual and interpersonal violence specialists students can contact. Specialists could not be undergraduate or full‑time graduate students, Title IX coordinators, campus security authorities, or certain responsible employees. They would provide trauma‑informed support, arrange accommodations (housing, academics, language services) without requiring a police report, and keep information confidential unless you give written consent after full notice. Colleges could offer anonymous online reporting, and specialists would report anonymized statistics annually. The Secretary would make online training materials within one year and set training deadlines for institutions.

Uniform campus discipline and amnesty

If enacted, each college would have to use the same campus disciplinary process for domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking on a given campus. Colleges could not vary the process by a student's status or require notifying or cooperating with police to take part. Both complainants and respondents would get written notice within 24 hours after the school decides to proceed. Colleges could adopt an amnesty policy, to the extent practicable, to protect good‑faith reporters from certain student conduct sanctions and would have to publish that policy.

Fines for college rule violations

If enacted, the Secretary could fine a college up to 1 percent of its operating budget for each year the college fails to meet specified requirements. The Secretary would define ‘‘operating budget’’ and penalties would be discretionary, not automatic. The penalty authorities would apply after the bill's specified effective dates. Any financial effect would fall first on the institution, and effects on household costs would be uncertain.

Campus grants to cover sexual harassment

If enacted, federal campus‑violence grants would explicitly include sexual harassment alongside sexual assault as eligible work. That would let grant programs cover harassment prevention and response on campuses. The bill text does not set aside new funding or say how much grant money would increase.

More public campus safety data

If enacted, eligible colleges would expand their annual campus safety reports starting with the report due one year after enactment. Reports would include anonymized counts such as whether the respondent was a student, reports made to Title IX coordinators or responsible employees, how many victims sought campus discipline, case outcomes, sanctions that would not identify people, and cases closed because a respondent withdrew. Colleges would also have to make campus safety information easy to find and available in different languages. The Secretary would provide definitions, methodology, and privacy guidance.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Khanna, Ro [D-CA-17]

CA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]

    PA • R

    Sponsored 10/6/2026

  • Rep. Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1]

    OH • D

    Sponsored 10/6/2026

  • Rep. Frankel, Lois [D-FL-22]

    FL • D

    Sponsored 10/6/2026

  • Rep. DelBene, Suzan K. [D-WA-1]

    WA • D

    Sponsored 10/6/2026

  • Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [D-FL-25]

    FL • D

    Sponsored 10/6/2026

  • Rep. Stansbury, Melanie A. [D-NM-1]

    NM • D

    Sponsored 10/19/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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