Postsecondary education: sexual assault and sexual violence prevention training: intimate partner and dating violence.

Existing law requires the governing boards of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the governing boards of independent postsecondary institutions, in order to receive state funds for student financial assistance, to enter into memoranda of understanding, agreements, or collaborative partnerships with existing on-campus and community-based organizations, to the extent feasible, to refer students for assistance or make services available to students, including counseling, health, mental health, victim advocacy, and legal assistance, and including resources for the accused. This bill would identify domestic violence centers as an eligible type of on-campus or community-based organization for this purpose. Existing law also conditions receipt of those state financial aid funds on those governing entities adopting, among other things, detailed and victim-centered policies and protocols, and outreach programs, regarding sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking involving a student that comport with best practices and current professional standards, covering specified topics, including a comprehensive, trauma-informed training program for campus officials involved in investigating and adjudicating sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking cases. This bill would provide that the outreach programming required by this provision would include informing students about specified topics relating to intimate partner and dating violence, and would specify that incoming graduate, international, and transfer students are included in the definition of incoming students for the purposes of who is provided outreach programming.