Tougher rules for reporting college campus violence were released by the White House Friday.

These new rules, as part of the Clery Act, ensure that students are made aware of the prevalence of sexual and domestic assault at their schools, Bloomberg reported.

The Clery Act currently only requires colleges to report, and make available to the public, instances of violent crime including murder, sex offenses and burglary.

With the changes Friday, the colleges must now also publish data on dating and domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in their annual crime reports.

A member of the committee told Bloomberg this is the biggest change to campus sexual assault policy in 20 years. But the new laws will not go into effect until 2015.

However, the White House expects schools to act in good faith and implement them this year.

The action taken Friday was months in the making, since a White House task force mandated colleges across the country, through surveys, to reveal the level of frequency of sexual assault, in order to address the issue and help stop the violence on their campuses.

Students have previously filed complaints with the Department of Education, and alleged that schools violated the act and Title IX, the law that bars gender discrimination in education, by failing to respond to and report sexual assaults.

The new additions to the Act also require that campuses identify gender identity and national origin as categories of bias that serve as the basis for determining hate crimes. Colleges will also have to give students access and information on disciplinary procedures and support programs.

The law was first enacted in 1990, four years after the rape and murder of Jeanne Clery, a 19-year-old student at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

It is a rule the government takes seriously, and will punish schools that don't comply by possibly revoking access to federal student-financial aid.