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Article: SENATE APPROVES AMENDMENT BASED ON SPECTER/BIDEN LEGISLATION REQUIRING COLLEGES TO ESTABLISH POLICIES FOR CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT
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- February 21, 1992
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SENATE APPROVES AMENDMENT BASED ON SPECTER/BIDEN LEGISLATION
REQUIRING COLLEGES TO ESTABLISH POLICIES FOR CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Senate last night approved an amendment based on the Campus Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights Act, introduced jointly by U.S. Sens. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Joseph Biden (D-Del.).
The amendment requires colleges and universities to provide programs aimed at prevention of sex offenses and to establish procedures followed once these crimes have occurred.
"As an original co-sponsor of this act, and sponsor of The Student Right to Know Act, which is now law, I believe that this legislation ...