WASHINGTON — Legislation aimed at improving the reporting and prevention of hazing on college campuses has passed both chambers of Congress unanimously and is now heading to the president's desk, Sen. Bill Cassidy said Thursday.

The Stop Campus Hazing Act, which Cassidy, R-La., introduced with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., was written after LSU student Max Gruver died being hazed at a September 2017 Phi Beta Theta fraternity event. According to Gruver's family, in just 90 minutes, Gruver was forced to drink so much alcohol, that his blood alcohol level was six times the legal limit. The Senate gave the bill final passage on Wednesday.

If the bill is signed, colleges would be required to include hazing incidents in their annual security reports so students and their parents can make informed decisions about joining organizations on campus, the bill's sponsors said. Colleges would have to publish on their websites the institution's hazing prevention policies and list the organizations that have violated them.

"Every student should feel safe on their college campus," Cassidy said. "It provides transparency so that if there is a campus organization that has been found guilty, that would be available for a prospective student and his or her parents to see the website, and they could avoid that organization."

Cassidy added that he was proud to see this legislation pass Congress and looked forward to it becoming law.

Rae Ann and Steve Gruver, Max's parents, spoke to WBRZ about his death. They said even seven years later, it still hurts just as much. They say their purpose ever since was making sure that what happened to Max doesn't happen to others. 

"We've paid the ultimate price. We lost our son. So us being able to fight for other kids and other young adults that just want to go have a good time at college and just enjoy those four years. When you're learning to be a young adult, you should be protected," Rae Ann said. 

Following their son's death, the Gruver family launched the Max Gruver Foundation, a non-profit group that hopes to end hazing. Gruver's father has also become an advocate for ending hazing on campuses, appearing in September on ABC News with other victims' families to show that "we need much stronger state laws against hazing for penalties."

"We have been all over the country. Literally from you know New York, New Jersey, Florida, Kentucky. Everywhere. I think there's only a couple of states technically, that we haven't been to," Rae Ann said. 

Since Gruver's death, the Louisiana Legislature passed the Max Gruver Act, which defines hazing and lays out penalties in an effort to prevent it.

Gruver had participated in what Phi Delta Theta called its "Bible Study" event, a hazing ritual at which fraternity members would quiz pledges on the history of the fraternity and force them to drink a potent alcohol known as "Diesel" when they answered incorrectly. An affidavit showed that Gruver was unfairly targeted during the event, WBRZ reported previously.

The Gruvers said that stopping hazing begins with parents having a conversation with their kids about hazing before they head to college and for students to make the right choices.