Amend SB 968 (house committee report) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTIONS to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 51.9363, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsection (e) and adding Subsections (f) and (g) to read as follows:
(e) Each institution of higher education shall provide to students enrolled at the institution information regarding the protocol for reporting incidents of campus sexual assault adopted under Subsection (b), including the name, office location, and contact information of the institution's Title IX coordinator, by:
(1) e-mailing the information to each student at the beginning of each semester or other academic term; and
(2) including the information in the orientation required under Subsection (d).
(f) As part of the protocol for responding to reports of campus sexual assault adopted under Subsection (b), each institution of higher education shall:
(1) to the greatest extent practicable based on the number of counselors employed by the institution, ensure that each alleged victim or alleged perpetrator of an incident of campus sexual assault and any other person who reports such an incident is offered counseling provided by a counselor who does not provide counseling to any other person involved in the incident; and
(2) notwithstanding any other law, allow an alleged victim or alleged perpetrator of an incident of campus sexual assault to drop a course in which both parties are enrolled without any academic penalty.
(g) Each biennium, each institution of higher education shall review the institution's campus sexual assault policy and, with approval of the institution's governing board, revise the policy as necessary.
SECTION ____. Section 51.9363, Education Code, as amended by this Act, applies beginning with the 2017-2018 academic year.