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119-s-163119th CongressWALLET

Protecting Students on Campus Act of 2025

Sponsored By: Senator Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]

In Committee

Summary

Expanded Title VI awareness and oversight. This bill would require the Education Department and colleges to make it easier for students to learn about their civil‑rights under Title VI and to file discrimination complaints, while increasing federal reporting and audits.

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  • Students and campus communities: Would get annually updated public awareness materials about Title VI rights and how to file complaints, posted in high‑traffic campus locations and on key student webpages.
  • Institutions of higher education: Would have to place a prominent link on their homepage to the Office for Civil Rights complaint page and annually post the Department's campaign materials. They must also submit an annual report counting and describing discrimination complaints and their responses.
  • Federal oversight and enforcement: The Office for Civil Rights would run the awareness campaign, provide monthly briefings to Congress for one year, and would be barred from closing complaints solely because another agency or a school resolved them. The Department of Education's Inspector General would audit the top 5 percent of institutions by per‑capita complaints and study disparities between campus and OCR filings.

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More Title VI info for students

This bill would fund a Title VI awareness campaign run by the Education Department. The campaign would be updated yearly and include visual and audio materials. Colleges that get federal Higher Education Act money would have to put a clear link to the Office for Civil Rights complaint page on their homepage. Those colleges would also have to post the campaign materials each year in busy campus places and on busy web pages. Each college would have to send a yearly report to the Department of Education Inspector General listing how many Title VI complaints it got, what they were about, and what the school did. The Inspector General would audit the top 5 percent of schools by complaints per student and study why complaints to schools differ from complaints to OCR.

Stronger federal review of Title VI complaints

If enacted, the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights would give monthly briefings to Congress about Title VI complaints for one year. Briefings must start within 30 days and end one year after enactment. The Assistant Secretary would give Congress a written report 48 hours before each briefing that protects personal data. The report would show complaint numbers by race, color, and national origin and how long complaints stay open. The bill would also bar the Office for Civil Rights from closing complaints just because another agency or a school already resolved them.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]

LA • R

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Fetterman, John [D-PA]

    PA • D

    Sponsored 1/21/2025

  • Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]

    ME • R

    Sponsored 4/3/2025

  • Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV]

    NV • D

    Sponsored 4/29/2025

  • Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY]

    NY • D

    Sponsored 4/29/2025

  • Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]

    NV • D

    Sponsored 9/17/2025

  • Sen. McCormick, David [R-PA]

    PA • R

    Sponsored 12/15/2025

Roll Call Votes

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