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Families can’t afford childcare, rent, or groceries — but this administration somehow found time to launch a misinformation-filled anti-abortion website? Completely out of touch.

HB 4990 would amend the Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act to add key updates and increased protections for survivors of gender-based violence. The bill has four areas of focus:
- Addressing protections against student-on-student sexual harassment, including protections against digital sexual harassment;
- Ensuring survivors are allowed both a support person and a complaint advisor during complaint proceedings;
- Requiring an update to existing policies to strengthen anti-retaliation protections and clarify the availability of supportive and protective measures for survivors;
- Creating an enforcement mechanism so that institutions are complying with their policies and taking student survivor reports of GBV seriously.

Student survivors should not have to choose between their safety and their education. Please send an email to your legislators today. They only have a few days to vote on the measure! https://the-network.quorum.us/campaign/153340/