2018 Senate Bill 903

Criminalize failure to report university sex crime

Introduced in the Senate

March 15, 2018

Introduced by Sens. Goeff Hansen (R-34) and Rick Jones (R-24)

To establish that if a person working as a professional at a college or university, or who is paid or volunteers to conduct athletic activities, has reasonable cause to suspect that a student has been the victim of a sexual assault at the institution and fails to report it police and the institution, he or she can be sued for the proximate damages caused by the failure, and is also guilty of a crime punishable by two years in prison (or half that for volunteers).

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

April 26, 2018

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.