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5.20.15 | Ken Dixon

HARTFORD -- All Connecticut college students would be trained in the "yes means yes" standard in attempt to combat sex assaults on campuses, under a bill that won approval late Tuesday night in the Senate.

The legislation, which passed 34-1, next moves to the House.

It is aimed at building on last year's legislative attempt to combat sexual assaults that have rocked campuses including Yale and the main campus of the University of Connecticut that resulted in a multi-million-dollar settlement with a group of female rape victims.

The bill would redefine the meaning of consent from the so-called "no means no" standard, to the affirmative consent of intimate partners saying yes during all stages of sexual encounters.

While UConn and Yale already have such standards, following their campus rape scandals, Sen. Mae Flexer, D-Danielson, whose district includes Storrs, said during the floor debate that if the bill becomes law, all college campuses, public and private, will have the new standards for intimacy.

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