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Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2017 - 2018 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: December 20, 2016 11:00 AM
From: Senator Judith L. Schwank
To: All Senate members
Subject: Campus sexual assault study
 
I will shortly reintroduce SR 237 from the 2015-2016 General Assembly, directing the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study into incidents of sexual assault on post-secondary campuses and to make recommendations for policy and statutory changes needed to decrease the risks of assault and injury and increase safety for students, staff and visitors to campuses.
Sexual assaults on and related to scholastic campuses are a serious concern to all of us, but the actual magnitude and impact, and the current responses in the Commonwealth to the issue are either based on extrapolations from national studies or are a response to specific incidents. The accuracy and the relevance of our understanding and responses statewide and in regard to individual campuses remains unclear, and is often a matter of disagreement even among parties with common concerns for safety.
My resolution will provide for a committee of up to 20 representatives from schools, law enforcement, victim resource programs and agencies, and students to assist the commission in studying and analyzing the nature and extent of sexual assault on post-secondary campuses in Pennsylvania, the nature and effectiveness of sexual assault education and prevention programs here, the accuracy and use of reporting data and the response by officials and others to reports of assaults, and the effectiveness of statutory or regulatory mandates and programs.
Co-sponsors last session included Senators Rafferty, Tartaglione, Brewster, Haywood, Fontana, Mensch, Bartolotta, Costa, Vulakovich, Yudicahk, Farnese and Wiliams.



Introduced as SR57