Proposed Title IX Regulations posted - You can comment now!

Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:20:43 -0500

Attention Students:

The Secretary of Education proposes to amend regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). The proposed regulations would clarify and modify:

1. Title IX regulatory requirements pertaining to the availability of remedies for violations

2. The effect of Constitutional protections

3. The designation of a coordinator to address sex discrimination issues

4. The dissemination of a nondiscrimination policy

5. The adoption of grievance procedures

6. The process to claim a religious exemption

The proposed regulations would also specify how recipient institutions that are covered by Title IX must respond to incidents of sexual harassment consistent with Title IX's prohibition against sex discrimination.

The proposed Title IX regulations have been posted to the Federal Register. Because of this, the comment period for submission of comments on the proposed regulations is now open until January 28, 2019 at 11:59 PM ET.

These comments can be submitted here:
https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=ED-2018-OCR-0064-0001

Information on how to submit an effective comment can be found here :
https://www.regulations.gov/docs/Tips_For_Submitting_Effective_Comments.pdf

Note that a unique comments carry more weight than form letter comments. Non-unique comments are counted as essentially a single comment.