H.R. 10761 — Campus Accountability and Safety Act of 2026

This section expands annual security report requirements under the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act. It requires institutions to publish reports in an easily accessible manner and in multiple languages on their websites. It adds rape, fondling, incest, and statutory rape to the list of reportable crimes and mandates new annual data on student-involved incidents, including the number reported to title IX coordinators, cases processed through disciplinary proceedings, findings of responsibility, and sanctions imposed, beginning one year after enactment. It adds definitions for complainant, respondent, title IX coordinator, and higher education responsible employee, and requires statistics on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking to be compiled using specific federal definitions while protecting complainant and respondent identities.

This section establishes a publicly available, searchable, and user-friendly campus safety website maintained by the Secretary of Education. The website must include descriptions of each institution’s title IX coordinator and sexual and interpersonal violence specialist with contact information; the Department’s pending investigations, enforcement actions, letters of finding, and resolution agreements under the Clery Act and title IX related to sexual harassment, with an indication of whether each matter originated from a complaint or compliance review; downloadable institutional data; instructions for filing complaints; and the Department’s policies on complaint review, compliance reviews, and investigations, including contact information, potential outcomes, and expected timeframes.

This section requires institutions of higher education receiving funds under the Higher Education Act to establish campus security policies that designate one or more sexual and interpersonal violence specialists. Specialists must meet specified qualifications, complete training on victim-centered trauma-informed techniques, and provide complainants with written information on rights under federal and state law, reporting options, investigation and disciplinary processes, resource lists, and limitations on confidentiality.

This section expands grants to institutions of higher education to develop security, investigation, victim services, and prevention programs addressing sexual harassment, in addition to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campuses.

This section directs the Comptroller General to study the effectiveness and efficiency of grants to combat domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking on campuses under section 304 of the Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005, and to submit a report on the study to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and the House Committee on Education and Workforce within 2 years of enactment.