1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act of 2017 . 2. Institutional and financial assistance information for students Section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1092(f) ) is amended— (1) by striking the subsection heading and inserting Disclosure of campus security and harassment policy and campus crime statistics. ; (2) in paragraph (6)(A)— (A) by redesignating clauses (iii), (iv), and (v), as clauses (vii), (viii), and (ix), respectively; and (B) by inserting after clause (ii) the following: (iii) The term commercial mobile service has the meaning given the term in section 332(d) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 332(d) ). (iv) The term electronic communication means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, or data of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic, or photooptical system. (v) The term electronic messaging services has the meaning given the term in section 102 of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act ( 47 U.S.C. 1001 ). (vi) The term harassment means conduct, including acts of verbal, nonverbal, or physical aggression, intimidation, or hostility (including conduct that is undertaken in whole or in part, through the use of electronic messaging services, commercial mobile services, electronic communications, or other technology) that— (I) is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive so as to limit a student's ability to participate in or benefit from a program or activity at an institution of higher education, or to create a hostile or abusive educational environment at an institution of higher education; and (II) is based on a student's actual or perceived— (aa) race; (bb) color; (cc) national origin; (dd) sex; (ee) disability; (ff) sexual orientation; (gg) gender identity; or (hh) religion. ; (3) by redesignating paragraphs (9) through (18) as paragraphs (10) through (19), respectively