California § 66283 - This section shall be known, and may be cited, as Katie Meyer

§ 66283. This section shall be known, and may be cited, as Katie Meyer

(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as Katie Meyer’s Law. (b) In order to receive state funds for student financial assistance, the governing board of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Directors of the College of the Law, San Francisco, and the Regents of the University of California shall adopt a policy permitting a student to be assisted by an adviser if the student receives a notification of an alleged violation of the public postsecondary educational institution’s student code of conduct. The policy shall include all of the following: (1) The initial allegation letter that is received by the student shall include a clause informing the student of their right to select an adviser of their choice or to request the public postsecondary educational institution to provide an adviser to the student. (2) A public postsecondary educational institution may use any of the following to fulfill its obligation to provide an adviser to the student: (A) A confidential respondent services coordinator. (B) An agreement with a student-based peer support program. (C) An agreement with an alumni-based support program. (3) The adviser selected by the student or provided by the public postsecondary educational institution shall be provided training by the institution on the institution’s adjudication procedures for the alleged violation. The training may be provided in an online format, and is not required to, but may, have an in-person or interactive element. To the extent practical, institutions within each segment of public postsecondary education are encouraged to collaborate to develop a training that can be used by more than one institution in that segment. (4) An adviser, with written permission from the student, shall receive updates along with the student during the adjudication process of the alleged violation of the student code of conduct and shall participate in the process as an advocate for the student or in the role of adviser as authorized by Section 66281.8 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.). (c) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Adjudication procedures” means a public postsecondary educational institution’s established process to determine if a student has violated the student code of conduct and the established process to respond when violations are sustained. (2) “Public postsecondary educational institution” means a community college, a campus of the California State University, a campus of the University of California, or the College of the Law, San Francisco. (3) “Segment of public postsecondary education” means the California Community Colleges, the California State University, or the University of California. (4) “Student code of conduct” means any rules or policies adopted by a public postsecondary educational institution on the expectations or standards of student behavior on campus, including, but not limited to, standards related to academics, athletics, and sex discrimination.