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Senate Minority Leader Richard L. Saslaw, D-Fairfax, delivering a tirade about the report of an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia in 2012, told the Falls Church City Council on Monday that he is drafting legislation to hold officials at state colleges and universities accountable.

Saslaw said that under the measure, a state employee at an institution of higher education who has been informed that a sexual assault has taken place would have to report it to local police within 24 hours or face up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

“This has got to stop,” Saslaw said, adding: “Those people at U.Va. have no business adjudicating a felony, for God’s sake.”

The Blue Virginia blog posted a report Wednesday on his speech to the Falls Church council.

Saslaw, whose daughter graduated from U.Va., said he cannot remember being angrier as an adult than when he read the Rolling Stone article detailing the allegations of the rape at the university.