Public Act 099-0426
 
HB0821 EnrolledLRB099 04641 NHT 24670 b

    AN ACT concerning education.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act.
 
    Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
    "Awareness programming" means institutional action
designed to communicate the prevalence of sexual violence,
including without limitation training, poster and flyer
campaigns, electronic communications, films, guest speakers,
symposia, conferences, seminars, or panel discussions.
    "Bystander intervention" includes without limitation the
act of challenging the social norms that support, condone, or
permit sexual violence.
    "Complainant" means a student who files a complaint
alleging violation of the comprehensive policy through the
higher education institution's complaint resolution procedure.
    "Comprehensive policy" means a policy created and
implemented by a higher education institution to address
student allegations of sexual violence, domestic violence,
dating violence, and stalking.
    "Confidential advisor" means a person who is employed or
contracted by a higher education institution to provide
emergency and ongoing support to student survivors of sexual
violence with the training, duties, and responsibilities
described in Section 20 of this Act.
    "Higher education institution" means a public university,
a public community college, or an independent, not-for-profit
or for-profit higher education institution located in this
State.
    "Primary prevention programming" means institutional
action and strategies intended to prevent sexual violence
before it occurs by means of changing social norms and other
approaches, including without limitation training, poster and
flyer campaigns, electronic communications, films, guest
speakers, symposia, conferences, seminars, or panel
discussions.
    "Respondent" means a student involved in the complaint
resolution procedure who has been accused of violating a higher
education institution's comprehensive policy.
    "Sexual violence" means physical sexual acts attempted or
perpetrated against a person's will or when a person is
incapable of giving consent, including without limitation
rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual abuse, and sexual
coercion.
    "Survivor" means a student who has experienced sexual
violence, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking
while enrolled at a higher education institution.
    "Survivor-centered" means a systematic focus on the needs
and concerns of a survivor of sexual violence, domestic
violence, dating violence, or stalking that (i) ensures the
compassionate and sensitive delivery of services in a
nonjudgmental manner; (ii) ensures an understanding of how
trauma affects survivor behavior; (iii) maintains survivor
safety, privacy, and, if possible, confidentiality; and (iv)
recognizes that a survivor is not responsible for the sexual
violence, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking.
    "Trauma-informed response" means a response involving an
understanding of the complexities of sexual violence, domestic
violence, dating violence, or stalking through training
centered on the neurobiological impact of trauma, the influence
of societal myths and stereotypes surrounding sexual violence,
domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking, and
understanding the behavior of perpetrators.
 
    Section 10. Comprehensive policy. On or before August 1,
2016, all higher education institutions shall adopt a
comprehensive policy concerning sexual violence, domestic
violence, dating violence, and stalking consistent with
governing federal and State law. The higher education
institution's comprehensive policy shall include, at a
minimum, all of the following components:
        (1) A definition of consent that, at a minimum,
    recognizes that (i) consent is a freely given agreement to
    sexual activity, (ii) a person's lack of verbal or physical
    resistance or submission resulting from the use or threat
    of force does not constitute consent, (iii) a person's
    manner of dress does not constitute consent, (iv) a
    person's consent to past sexual activity does not
    constitute consent to future sexual activity, (v) a
    person's consent to engage in sexual activity with one
    person does not constitute consent to engage in sexual
    activity with another, (vi) a person can withdraw consent
    at any time, and (vii) a person cannot consent to sexual
    activity if that person is unable to understand the nature
    of the activity or give knowing consent due to
    circumstances, including without limitation the following:
            (A) the person is incapacitated due to the use or
        influence of alcohol or drugs;
            (B) the person is asleep or unconscious;
            (C) the person is under age; or
            (D) the person is incapacitated due to a mental
        disability.
        Nothing in this Section prevents a higher education
    institution from defining consent in a more demanding
    manner.
        (2) Procedures that students of the higher education
    institution may follow if they choose to report an alleged
    violation of the comprehensive policy, regardless of where
    the incident of sexual violence, domestic violence, dating
    violence, or stalking occurred, including all of the
    following:
            (A) Name and contact information for the Title IX
        coordinator, campus law enforcement or security, local
        law enforcement, and the community-based sexual
        assault crisis center.
            (B) The name, title, and contact information for
        confidential advisors and other confidential resources
        and a description of what confidential reporting
        means.
            (C) Information regarding the various individuals,
        departments, or organizations to whom a student may
        report a violation of the comprehensive policy,
        specifying for each individual and entity (i) the
        extent of the individual's or entity's reporting
        obligation, (ii) the extent of the individual's or
        entity's ability to protect the student's privacy, and
        (iii) the extent of the individual's or entity's
        ability to have confidential communications with the
        student.
            (D) An option for students to electronically
        report.
            (E) An option for students to anonymously report.
            (F) An option for students to confidentially
        report.
            (G) An option for reports by third parties and
        bystanders.
        (3) The higher education institution's procedure for
    responding to a report of an alleged incident of sexual
    violence, domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking,
    including without limitation (i) assisting and
    interviewing the survivor, (ii) identifying and locating
    witnesses, (iii) contacting and interviewing the
    respondent, (iv) contacting and cooperating with law
    enforcement, when applicable, and (v) providing
    information regarding the importance of preserving
    physical evidence of the sexual violence and the
    availability of a medical forensic examination at no charge
    to the survivor.
        (4) A statement of the higher education institution's
    obligation to provide survivors with concise information,
    written in plain language, concerning the survivor's
    rights and options, upon receiving a report of an alleged
    violation of the comprehensive policy, as described in
    Section 15 of this Act.
        (5) The name, address, and telephone number of the
    medical facility nearest to each campus of the higher
    education institution where a survivor may have a medical
    forensic examination completed at no cost to the survivor,
    pursuant to the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency
    Treatment Act.
        (6) The name, telephone number, address, and website
    URL, if available, of community-based, State, and national
    sexual assault crisis centers.
        (7) A statement notifying survivors of the interim
    protective measures and accommodations reasonably
    available from the higher education institution that a
    survivor may request in response to an alleged violation of
    the comprehensive policy, including without limitation
    changes to academic, living, dining, transportation, and
    working situations, obtaining and enforcing campus no
    contact orders, and honoring an order of protection or no
    contact order entered by a State civil or criminal court.
        (8) The higher education institution's complaint
    resolution procedures if a student alleges violation of the
    comprehensive violence policy, including, at a minimum,
    the guidelines set forth in Section 25 of this Act.
        (9) A statement of the range of sanctions the higher
    education institution may impose following the
    implementation of its complaint resolution procedures in
    response to an alleged violation of the comprehensive
    policy.
        (10) A statement of the higher education institution's
    obligation to include an amnesty provision that provides
    immunity to any student who reports, in good faith, an
    alleged violation of the higher education institution's
    comprehensive policy to a responsible employee, as defined
    by federal law, so that the reporting student will not
    receive a disciplinary sanction by the institution for a
    student conduct violation, such as underage drinking, that
    is revealed in the course of such a report, unless the
    institution determines that the violation was egregious,
    including without limitation an action that places the
    health or safety of any other person at risk.
        (11) A statement of the higher education institution's
    prohibition on retaliation against those who, in good
    faith, report or disclose an alleged violation of the
    comprehensive policy, file a complaint, or otherwise
    participate in the complaint resolution procedure and
    available sanctions for individuals who engage in
    retaliatory conduct.
 
    Section 15. Student notification of rights and options.
    (a) On or before August 1, 2016, upon being notified of an
alleged violation of the comprehensive policy by or on behalf
of a student, each higher education institution shall, at a
minimum, provide the survivor, when identified, with a concise
notification, written in plain language, of the survivor's
rights and options, including without limitation:
        (1) the survivor's right to report or not report the
    alleged incident to the higher education institution, law
    enforcement, or both, including information about the
    survivor's right to privacy and which reporting methods are
    confidential;
        (2) the contact information for the higher education
    institution's Title IX coordinator or coordinators,
    confidential advisors, a community-based sexual assault
    crisis center, campus law enforcement, and local law
    enforcement;
        (3) the survivor's right to request and receive
    assistance from campus authorities in notifying law
    enforcement;
        (4) the survivor's ability to request interim
    protective measures and accommodations for survivors,
    including without limitation changes to academic, living,
    dining, working, and transportation situations, obtaining
    and enforcing a campus-issued order of protection or no
    contact order, if such protective measures and
    accommodations are reasonably available, and an order of
    protection or no contact order in State court;
        (5) the higher education institution's ability to
    provide assistance, upon the survivor's request, in
    accessing and navigating campus and local health and mental
    health services, counseling, and advocacy services; and
        (6) a summary of the higher education institution's
    complaint resolution procedures, under Section 25 of this
    Act, if the survivor reports a violation of the
    comprehensive policy.
    (b) Within 12 hours after receiving an electronic report,
the higher education institution shall respond to the
electronic reporter and, at a minimum, provide the information
described in subdivisions (1) through (6) of subsection (a) of
this Section and a list of available resources. The higher
education institution may choose the manner in which it
responds including, but not limited to, through verbal or
electronic communication. Nothing in this subsection (b)
limits a higher education institution's obligations under
subsection (a) of this Section.
 
    Section 20. Confidential advisor.
    (a) Each higher education institution shall provide
students with access to confidential advisors to provide
emergency and ongoing support to survivors of sexual violence.
    (b) The confidential advisors may not be individuals on
campus who are designated as responsible employees under Title
IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972. Nothing in this
Section precludes a higher education institution from
partnering with a community-based sexual assault crisis center
to provide confidential advisors.
    (c) All confidential advisors shall receive 40 hours of
training on sexual violence, if they have not already completed
this 40-hour training, before being designated a confidential
advisor and shall attend a minimum of 6 hours of ongoing
education training annually on issues related to sexual
violence to remain a confidential advisor. Confidential
advisors shall also receive periodic training on the campus
administrative processes, interim protective measures and
accommodations, and complaint resolution procedures.
    (d) In the course of working with a survivor, each
confidential advisor shall, at a minimum, do all of the
following:
        (1) Inform the survivor of the survivor's choice of
    possible next steps regarding the survivor's reporting
    options and possible outcomes, including without
    limitation reporting pursuant to the higher education
    institution's comprehensive policy and notifying local law
    enforcement.
        (2) Notify the survivor of resources and services for
    survivors of sexual violence, including, but not limited
    to, student services available on campus and through
    community-based resources, including without limitation
    sexual assault crisis centers, medical treatment
    facilities, counseling services, legal resources, medical
    forensic services, and mental health services.
        (3) Inform the survivor of the survivor's rights and
    the higher education institution's responsibilities
    regarding orders of protection, no contact orders, or
    similar lawful orders issued by the higher education
    institution or a criminal or civil court.
        (4) Provide confidential services to and have
    privileged, confidential communications with survivors of
    sexual violence in accordance with Section 8-804 of the
    Code of Civil Procedure.
        (5) Upon the survivor's request and as appropriate,
    liaise with campus officials, community-based sexual
    assault crisis centers, or local law enforcement and, if
    requested, assist the survivor with contacting and
    reporting to campus officials, campus law enforcement, or
    local law enforcement.
        (6) Upon the survivor's request, liaise with the
    necessary campus authorities to secure interim protective
    measures and accommodations for the survivor.
 
    Section 25. Complaint resolution procedures.
    (a) On or before August 1, 2016, each campus of a higher
education institution shall adopt one procedure to resolve
complaints of alleged student violations of the comprehensive
policy.
    (b) For each campus, a higher education institution's
complaint resolution procedures for allegations of student
violation of the comprehensive policy shall provide, at a
minimum, all of the following:
        (1) Complainants alleging student violation of the
    comprehensive policy shall have the opportunity to request
    that the complaint resolution procedure begin promptly and
    proceed in a timely manner.
        (2) The higher education institution shall determine
    the individuals who will resolve complaints of alleged
    student violations of the comprehensive policy.
        (3) All individuals whose duties include resolution of
    complaints of student violations of the comprehensive
    policy shall receive a minimum of 8 to 10 hours of annual
    training on issues related to sexual violence, domestic
    violence, dating violence, and stalking and how to conduct
    the higher education institution's complaint resolution
    procedures, in addition to the annual training required for
    employees as provided in subsection (c) of Section 30 of
    this Act.
        (4) The higher education institution shall have a
    sufficient number of individuals trained to resolve
    complaints so that (i) a substitution can occur in the case
    of a conflict of interest or recusal and (ii) an individual
    or individuals with no prior involvement in the initial
    determination or finding hear any appeal brought by a
    party.
        (5) The individual or individuals resolving a
    complaint shall use a preponderance of the evidence
    standard to determine whether the alleged violation of the
    comprehensive policy occurred.
        (6) The complainant and respondent shall (i) receive
    notice of the individual or individuals with authority to
    make a finding or impose a sanction in their proceeding
    before the individual or individuals initiate contact with
    either party and (ii) have the opportunity to request a
    substitution if the participation of an individual with
    authority to make a finding or impose a sanction poses a
    conflict of interest.
        (7) The higher education institution shall have a
    procedure to determine interim protective measures and
    accommodations available pending the resolution of the
    complaint.
        (8) Any proceeding, meeting, or hearing held to resolve
    complaints of alleged student violations of the
    comprehensive policy shall protect the privacy of the
    participating parties and witnesses.
        (9) The complainant, regardless of this person's level
    of involvement in the complaint resolution procedure, and
    the respondent shall have the opportunity to provide or
    present evidence and witnesses on their behalf during the
    complaint resolution procedure.
        (10) The complainant and the respondent may not
    directly cross examine one another, but may, at the
    discretion and direction of the individual or individuals
    resolving the complaint, suggest questions to be posed by
    the individual or individuals resolving the complaint and
    respond to the other party.
        (11) Both parties may request and must be allowed to
    have an advisor of their choice accompany them to any
    meeting or proceeding related to an alleged violation of
    the comprehensive policy, provided that the involvement of
    the advisor does not result in undue delay of the meeting
    or proceeding. The advisor must comply with any rules in
    the higher education institution's complaint resolution
    procedure regarding the advisor's role. If the advisor
    violates the rules or engages in behavior or advocacy that
    harasses, abuses, or intimidates either party, a witness,
    or an individual resolving the complaint, that advisor may
    be prohibited from further participation.
        (12) The complainant and the respondent may not be
    compelled to testify, if the complaint resolution
    procedure involves a hearing, in the presence of the other
    party. If a party invokes this right, the higher education
    institution shall provide a procedure by which each party
    can, at a minimum, hear the other party's testimony.
        (13) The complainant and the respondent are entitled to
    simultaneous, written notification of the results of the
    complaint resolution procedure, including information
    regarding appeal rights, within 7 days of a decision or
    sooner if required by State or federal law.
        (14) The complainant and the respondent shall, at a
    minimum, have the right to timely appeal the complaint
    resolution procedure's findings or imposed sanctions if
    the party alleges (i) a procedural error occurred, (ii) new
    information exists that would substantially change the
    outcome of the finding, or (iii) the sanction is
    disproportionate with the violation. The individual or
    individuals reviewing the findings or imposed sanctions
    shall not have participated previously in the complaint
    resolution procedure and shall not have a conflict of
    interest with either party. The complainant and the
    respondent shall receive the appeal decision in writing
    within 7 days after the conclusion of the review of
    findings or sanctions or sooner if required by federal or
    State law.
        (15) The higher education institution shall not
    disclose the identity of the survivor or the respondent,
    except as necessary to resolve the complaint or to
    implement interim protective measures and accommodations
    or when provided by State or federal law.
 
    Section 30. Campus training, education, and awareness.
    (a) On or before August 1, 2016, a higher education
institution shall prominently publish, timely update, and have
easily available on its Internet website all of the following
information:
        (1) The higher education institution's comprehensive
    policy, as well as options and resources available to
    survivors.
        (2) The higher education institution's student
    notification of rights and options described in Section 15
    of this Act.
        (3) The name and contact information for all of the
    higher education institution's Title IX coordinators.
        (4) An explanation of the role of (i) Title IX
    coordinators, including deputy or assistant Title IX
    coordinators, under Title IX of the federal Education
    Amendments of 1972, (ii) responsible employees under Title
    IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972, (iii)
    campus security authorities under the federal Jeanne Clery
    Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime
    Statistics Act, and (iv) mandated reporters under the
    Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act and the reporting
    obligations of each, as well as the level of
    confidentiality each is allowed to provide to reporting
    students under relevant federal and State law.
        (5) The name, title, and contact information for all
    confidential advisors, counseling services, and
    confidential resources that can provide a confidential
    response to a report and a description of what confidential
    reporting means.
        (6) The telephone number and website URL for
    community-based, State, and national hotlines providing
    information to sexual violence survivors.
    (b) Beginning with the 2016-2017 academic year, each higher
education institution shall provide sexual violence primary
prevention and awareness programming for all students who
attend one or more classes on campus, which shall include, at a
minimum, annual training as described in this subsection (b).
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to limit the higher
education institution's ability to conduct additional ongoing
sexual violence primary prevention and awareness programming.
    Each higher education institution's annual training shall,
at a minimum, provide each student who attends one or more
classes on campus information regarding the higher education
institution's comprehensive policy, including without
limitation the following:
        (1) the institution's definitions of consent,
    inability to consent, and retaliation as they relate to
    sexual violence;
        (2) reporting to the higher education institution,
    campus law enforcement, and local law enforcement;
        (3) reporting to the confidential advisor or other
    confidential resources;
        (4) available survivor services; and
        (5) strategies for bystander intervention and risk
    reduction.
    At the beginning of each academic year, each higher
education institution shall provide each student of the higher
education institution with an electronic copy or hard copy of
its comprehensive policy, procedures, and related protocols.
    (c) Beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year, a higher
education institution shall provide annual survivor-centered
and trauma-informed response training to any employee of the
higher education institution who is involved in (i) the receipt
of a student report of an alleged incident of sexual violence,
domestic violence, dating violence, or stalking, (ii) the
referral or provision of services to a survivor, or (iii) any
campus complaint resolution procedure that results from an
alleged incident of sexual violence, domestic violence, dating
violence, or stalking. Employees falling under this
description include without limitation the Title IX
coordinator, members of the higher education institution's
campus law enforcement, and campus security. An enrolled
student at or a contracted service provider of the higher
education institution with the employee responsibilities
outlined in clauses (i) through (iii) of this paragraph shall
also receive annual survivor-centered and trauma-informed
response training.
    The higher education institution shall design the training
to improve the trainee's ability to understand (i) the higher
education institution's comprehensive policy; (ii) the
relevant federal and State law concerning survivors of sexual
violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking at
higher education institutions; (iii) the roles of the higher
education institution, medical providers, law enforcement, and
community agencies in ensuring a coordinated response to a
reported incident of sexual violence; (iv) the effects of
trauma on a survivor; (v) the types of conduct that constitute
sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and
stalking, including same-sex violence; and (vi) consent and the
role drugs and alcohol use can have on the ability to consent.
The training shall also seek to improve the trainee's ability
to respond with cultural sensitivity; provide services to or
assist in locating services for a survivor, as appropriate; and
communicate sensitively and compassionately with a survivor of
sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, or
stalking.
 
    Section 75. The Campus Security Enhancement Act of 2008 is
amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
 
    (110 ILCS 12/10)
    Sec. 10. Task Community task force.
    (a) In this Section:
    "Higher education institution" means a public university,
a public community college, or an independent, not-for-profit
or for-profit higher education institution located in this
State.
    "Sexual violence" means physical sexual acts attempted or
perpetrated against a person's will or when a person is
incapable of giving consent, including without limitation
rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual abuse, and sexual
coercion.
    (b) Each public institution of higher education
institution shall either establish their own campus-wide task
force or participate in a regional task force, as set out in
this Section, on or before August 1, 2016. The task forces
shall be composed of representatives of campus staff, campus
students, community-based organizations, and law enforcement.
The task forces shall work toward improving coordination
between by December 1, 1996, a community task force for the
purpose of coordinating with community leaders and service
providers to prevent sexual violence, domestic violence,
dating violence, and stalking assaults and to ensure a
coordinated response both in terms of law enforcement and
victim services.
        (1) The participants of the campus-wide task force
    shall consist of individuals, including campus staff,
    faculty, and students, selected by the president or
    chancellor of each higher education institution or the
    president's or chancellor's designee, which must include
    various stakeholders on the issue of sexual violence,
    domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
        The president or chancellor of each higher education
    institution or the president's or chancellor's designee
    shall invite each of the following entities to identify an
    individual to serve on the campus-wide task force:
            (A) a community-based sexual assault crisis
        center;
            (B) a community-based domestic violence agency;
            (C) local law enforcement; and
            (D) the local State's Attorney's office.
        Each higher education institution may make available
    to members of the campus-wide task force training on (i)
    the awareness and prevention of sexual violence, domestic
    violence, dating violence, and stalking and communicating
    with and providing assistance to a student survivor of
    sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and
    stalking; (ii) the higher education institution's
    comprehensive policy concerning sexual violence, domestic
    violence, dating violence, and stalking; (iii) the
    provisions of federal and State law concerning survivors of
    sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and
    stalking at higher education institutions; (iv)
    survivor-centered responses and the role of
    community-based advocates; (v) the role and functions of
    each member on such campus-wide task force for the purpose
    of ensuring a coordinated response to reported incidences
    of sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence,
    and stalking; and (vi) trauma-informed responses to sexual
    violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and
    stalking.
        The campus-wide task force shall meet at least 2 times
    per calendar year for the purpose of discussing and
    improving upon the following areas:
            (I) best practices as they relate to prevention,
        awareness, education, and response to sexual violence,
        domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking;
            (II) the higher education institution's
        comprehensive policy and procedures; and
            (III) collaboration and information-sharing among
        the higher education institution, community-based
        organizations, and law enforcement, including without
        limitation discussing memoranda of understanding,
        protocols, or other practices for cooperation.
        (2) Any regional task force in which a higher education
    institution participates shall have representatives from
    the following: higher education institutions,
    community-based sexual assault crisis centers and domestic
    violence organizations, and law enforcement agencies in
    the region, including, police, State's Attorney's offices,
    and other relevant law enforcement agencies. A higher
    education institution shall send appropriate designees,
    including faculty, staff, and students, to participate in
    the regional task force.
        The regional task force shall meet at least 2 times per
    calendar year for the purpose of discussing and improving
    upon the following areas:
            (A) best practices as they relate to prevention of,
        awareness of, education concerning, and the response
        to sexual violence, domestic violence, dating
        violence, and stalking;
            (B) sexual violence policies and procedures; and
            (C) collaboration and information-sharing among
        higher education institutions, community-based
        organizations, and law enforcement, including without
        limitation discussing memoranda of understanding,
        protocols, or other practices for cooperation.
(Source: P.A. 88-629, eff. 9-9-94.)
 
    Section 80. The Board of Higher Education Act is amended by
changing Section 9.21 as follows:
 
    (110 ILCS 205/9.21)  (from Ch. 144, par. 189.21)
    Sec. 9.21. Human Relations.
    (a) The Board shall monitor, budget, evaluate, and report
to the General Assembly in accordance with Section 9.16 of this
Act on programs to improve human relations to include race,
ethnicity, gender and other issues related to improving human
relations. The programs shall at least:
        (1) require each public institution of higher
    education to include, in the general education
    requirements for obtaining a degree, coursework on
    improving human relations to include race, ethnicity,
    gender and other issues related to improving human
    relations to address racism and sexual harassment on their
    campuses, through existing courses;
        (2) require each public institution of higher
    education to report annually monthly to the Department of
    Human Rights and the Attorney General on each adjudicated
    case in which a finding of racial, ethnic or religious
    intimidation or sexual harassment made in a grievance,
    affirmative action or other proceeding established by that
    institution to investigate and determine allegations of
    racial, ethnic or religious intimidation and sexual
    harassment; and
        (3) require each public institution of higher
    education to forward to the local State's Attorney any
    report received by campus security or by a university
    police department alleging the commission of a hate crime
    as defined under Section 12-7.1 of the Criminal Code of
    2012.
    (b) In this subsection (b):
    "Higher education institution" means a public university,
a public community college, or an independent, not-for-profit
or for-profit higher education institution located in this
State.
    "Sexual violence" means physical sexual acts attempted or
perpetrated against a person's will or when a person is
incapable of giving consent, including without limitation
rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual abuse, and sexual
coercion.
    On or before November 1, 2017 and on or before every
November 1 thereafter, each higher education institution shall
provide an annual report, concerning the immediately preceding
calendar year, to the Department of Human Rights and the
Attorney General with all of the following components:
        (1) A copy of the higher education institution's most
    recent comprehensive policy adopted in accordance with
    Section 10 of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher
    Education Act.
        (2) A copy of the higher education institution's most
    recent concise, written notification of a survivor's
    rights and options under its comprehensive policy,
    required pursuant to Section 15 of the Preventing Sexual
    Violence in Higher Education Act.
        (3) The number, type, and number of attendees, if
    applicable, of primary prevention and awareness
    programming at the higher education institution.
        (4) The number of incidents of sexual violence,
    domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking reported
    to the Title IX coordinator or other responsible employee,
    pursuant to Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of
    1972, of the higher education institution.
        (5) The number of confidential and anonymous reports to
    the higher education institution of sexual violence,
    domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking.
        (6) The number of allegations in which the survivor
    requested not to proceed with the higher education
    institution's complaint resolution procedure.
        (7) The number of allegations of sexual violence,
    domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking that the
    higher education institution investigated.
        (8) The number of allegations of sexual violence,
    domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking that were
    referred to local or State law enforcement.
        (9) The number of allegations of sexual violence,
    domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking that the
    higher education institution reviewed through its
    complaint resolution procedure.
        (10) With respect to all allegations of sexual
    violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking
    reviewed under the higher education institution's
    complaint resolution procedure, an aggregate list of the
    number of students who were (i) dismissed or expelled, (ii)
    suspended, (iii) otherwise disciplined, or (iv) found not
    responsible for violation of the comprehensive policy
    through the complaint resolution procedure during the
    reporting period.
    The Office of the Attorney General shall maintain on its
Internet website for public inspection a list of all higher
education institutions that fail to comply with the annual
reporting requirements as set forth in this subsection (b).
(Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
 
    Section 85. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by
adding Section 8-804 as follows:
 
    (735 ILCS 5/8-804 new)
    Sec. 8-804. Confidential advisor.
    (a) This Section is intended to protect students at higher
education institutions in this State who are survivors of
sexual violence from public disclosure of communications they
make in confidence to confidential advisors. Because of the
fear, stigma, and trauma that often result from incidents of
sexual violence, many survivors hesitate to report or seek
help, even when it is available at no cost to them. As a
result, they not only fail to receive needed medical care and
emergency counseling, but may lack the psychological support
necessary to report the incident of sexual violence to the
higher education institution or law enforcement.
    (b) In this Section:
    "Confidential advisor" means a person who is employed or
contracted by a higher education institution to provide
emergency and ongoing support to survivors of sexual violence
with the training, duties, and responsibilities described in
Section 20 of the Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher
Education Act.
    "Higher education institution" means a public university,
a public community college, or an independent, not-for-profit
or for-profit higher education institution located in this
State.
    "Sexual violence" means physical sexual acts attempted or
perpetrated against a person's will or when a person is
incapable of giving consent, including without limitation
rape, sexual assault, sexual battery, sexual abuse, and sexual
coercion.
    "Survivor" means a student who has experienced sexual
violence while enrolled at a higher education institution.
    (c) All communications between a confidential advisor and a
survivor pertaining to an incident of sexual violence shall
remain confidential, unless the survivor consents to the
disclosure of the communication in writing, the disclosure
falls within one of the exceptions outlined in subsection (d)
of this Section, or failure to disclose the communication would
violate State or federal law. Communications include all
records kept by the confidential advisor in the course of
providing the survivor with services related to the incident of
sexual violence.
    (d) The confidential advisor may disclose confidential
communications between the confidential advisor and the
survivor if failure to disclose would result in a clear,
imminent risk of serious physical injury to or death of the
survivor or another person.
    The confidential advisor shall have no obligation to report
crimes to the higher education institution or law enforcement,
except to report to the Title IX coordinator, as defined by
Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972, on a
monthly basis the number and type of incidents of sexual
violence reported exclusively to the confidential advisor in
accordance with the higher education institution's reporting
requirements under subsection (b) of Section 9.21 of the Board
of Higher Education Act and under federal law.
    If, in any judicial proceeding, a party alleges that the
communications are necessary to the determination of any issue
before the court and written consent to disclosure has not been
given, the party may ask the court to consider ordering the
disclosure of the communications. In such a case,
communications may be disclosed if the court finds, after in
camera examination of the communication, that the
communication is relevant, probative, and not unduly
prejudicial or inflammatory or is otherwise clearly
admissible; that other evidence is demonstrably unsatisfactory
as evidence of the facts sought to be established by the
communication or communications; and that disclosure is more
important to the interests of substantial justice than
protection from injury to the confidential advisor-survivor
relationship, to the survivor, or to any other individual whom
disclosure is likely to harm.
    (e) This privilege shall not preclude an individual from
asserting a greater privilege under federal or State law that
applies.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.