The lack of legal clarity around consent laws in the U.S. means that many sexual assaults,

especially ones on college campuses and involving alcohol, are not legally crimes.

But Texas lawmakers recently passed legislation to change that, and the new law is set

to take effect in September.

Producer Courtney Norris has our look at the bipartisan bill and the woman it's named after.

Ten years ago, Summer Willis attended a fraternity party at the University of Texas at Austin,

where she says she was drugged by one man and raped by another.

At the time, Willis was a college sophomore and did not report it.

She would later learn a loophole in the state's consent law meant what happened to her wasn't

even considered sexual assault.

The loophole my rape fell under was because I voluntarily accepted a drink from one person and another person raped me.

It doesn't count.

One, because I voluntarily took a drink.

And two, because that person, when I entered the party, did not have the intent to rape me,

even though someone else did.

In the U.S., there is no national legal definition of consent.

State laws determining the age of consent and what constitutes lack of consent differ.

And how a state defines consent plays a key role in whether an act is legally a crime.

I think something cracked inside of me, realizing that even if I wanted to, even if I went to

the police the next day, they would have just turned me around.

Two years ago, Willis decided to speak up and push for legislative reform in Texas.

If we have been drugged and made too incapacitated to say no, it doesn't count.

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