State Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier first began working with students to advance campus sexual assault legislation after touring colleges with her daughter, then a high school junior, in 2013.
Farley-Bouvier, D-Pittsfield, recalled learning at the time that an estimated one in five women experience sexual assault while in college, most of them in their first two years.
The legislation, which seeks to curb such violence on Massachusettsâ college campuses, was first advocated for and written by college students and survivors in 2014. On Tuesday, Gov. Charlie Baker signed it into law.
âMy daughter has long since graduated from high school and graduated from college ⦠but it is my hope that other peopleâs daughters can benefit from this bill,â Farley-Bouvier said, praising studentsâ advocacy.