{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://thompson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/thompson-colleagues-introduce-national-hazing-awareness-week-resolution", "Thompson, Colleagues\u00a0Introduce National Hazing Awareness Week Resolution", "2026-09-25", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "House", "PA", "Glenn Thompson", "T000467", "thompson.house.gov", "thompson", "https://thompson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Representatives Glenn \u201cGT\u201d Thompson (R-Pa.) and Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) introduced a resolution to recognize September 21-25, 2026, as \u201cNational Hazing Awareness Week.\u201d The resolution recognizes the hundreds of students who have died or suffered severe, life-altering injuries as a result of collegiate hazing and promotes efforts to prevent hazing.\n\nUnited States Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the Senate companion resolution.\n\n\u201cHazing has left countless students with life-altering injuries, and too many families have had to endure the loss of a loved one. I am pleased to introduce this bipartisan resolution to bring awareness, accountability, and transparency to campuses in an effort to help protect students from hazing,\u201d Rep. Thompson said.\n\n\u201cI have been honored to work with families and advocates to pass legislation to end campus hazing. I know what it's like to lose a loved one, and no parent should ever have to bury their child,\u201d Rep. McBath said. \u201cI\u2019m glad to lead efforts once again to spread awareness about the pain of these incidents and am grateful to my colleagues for their continued commitment to protecting our students.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhen parents send their kids away to college, they expect they will get a good education and make new friends. They don\u2019t expect them to be harassed and hazed. Hazing is a dangerous \u2014 and at times deadly \u2014 reality that students are confronted with,\u201d Sen. Klobuchar said. \u201cWith this resolution, we honor the students who have died or been severely injured due to hazing and promote preventive efforts. This goes hand in hand with our bipartisan Stop Campus Hazing Act, which is improving hazing reporting and prevention on college campuses.\u201d\n\n\u201cStudents should not have to fear getting physically or emotionally harmed while they are simply trying to find community at college,\u201d Dr. Cassidy said. \u201cThanks to the tireless work of the Gruver family and other advocates, we passed the Stop Campus Hazing Act last Congress to increase accountability and ensure hazing is never ignored.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nIn 2024, the Stop Campus Hazing Act was signed into law to combat hazing and dangerous practices towards students on college campuses by ensuring transparency and setting parameters for preventative action.\n\nThe law includes many anti-hazing provisions long championed by Rep. Thompson and Evelyn and Jim Piazza, whose son, Tim Piazza, tragically passed away in February 2017 at Penn State as a direct result of a hazing ritual at his fraternity. Today, September 25, would have been Tim's 29th birthday.\n\nThe Piazza's advocacy led to the establishment of the Timothy J. Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research and Reform at Penn State, whose research helped shape the Stop Campus Hazing Act and led to the enactment of some of the strongest anti-hazing laws anywhere in the country in Pennsylvania.\n\nRead the full resolution here.", 1, "2026-09-28T11:29:07Z", "2026-09-28T11:30:58Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://thompson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/thompson-colleagues-introduce-national-hazing-awareness-week-resolution"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7840939797461033, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}