April 10, 2008
New Bill in Congress Would Mandate Campus Alerts Within 30 Minutes of an Emergency
Washington
A requirement that colleges warn their campuses of emergencies within 30 minutes—a provision that is already in one bill pending in Congress—is the focus of another measure that was proposed on Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, Democrat of New York, introduced the new bill at a time when staff members from the House and Senate are preparing to hash out their differences over legislation to renew the Higher Education Act, the main federal
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