What a new rule would change.
Title IX regulation has changed twice in five years and is likely to change again. This page exists so that a reader can see what is stable, what is at risk, and when we last checked.
Where things stand today.
The 2020 regulations govern. A comprehensive rewrite published in 2024 was vacated nationwide in January 2025, and the Department reverted to enforcing the 2020 framework. A further rulemaking process is in progress, and a new final rule is realistically some way off - and near-certain to be litigated when it arrives.
The provisions that would matter.
Three, above all others. The live-hearing requirement, which gives a postsecondary respondent the only adversarial forum in the process. Advisor-conducted cross-examination, which is the mechanism by which an account is actually tested. And the separation of investigator and decision-maker, which prevents the person who formed a view during the investigation from also deciding. All three were removed by the 2024 rule, and all three would be the provisions to watch in any successor.
What does not move.
Constitutional protections. Doe v. Purdue in the Seventh Circuit and Doe v. Baum in the Sixth are due process decisions binding on public universities irrespective of what the Department promulgates. Where the regulatory floor drops, those authorities become the argument rather than a supplement to it - which is why they are worth understanding even while the current rule provides more.
What it means for a case now.
Nothing changes today. The 2020 rule applies, and the practical instruction is unchanged: check the date on any advice you read, because material describing a single-investigator determination without a hearing is describing a framework that was vacated. And build the record regardless - written objections, itemised evidence requests, documented refusals and preserved policy versions are useful under any regulatory framework, and under a thinner one they matter more.
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