Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) introduced the anti-harassment bill named for Tyler Clementi, the late Rutgers University freshman who committed suicide after being bullied over his sexual orientation.
The Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2015 requires colleges to establish policies to prohibit harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. A grant program established by the bill would support anti-harassment programs on campuses, including prevention, counseling and training.
Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge in fall 2010 after his roommate and another student filmed and circulated online video of him being intimate with a man.
The bill has been introduced in both chambers in each Congress since 2010, but has gone nowhere.