Multi-Hazard School Disaster Planning and Response Act of 2013

Summary: Multi-Hazard School Disaster Planning and Response Act of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow funds provided under the Matching Grant Program for School Security to be used for the following law enforcement and school information sharing activities: (1) establishing or improving an electronic data management system for the purpose of sharing specified emergency response plan data with first responders; (2) assisting local law enforcement and local schools with costs associated with collecting information on, evaluating, updating, and digitizing such plan data and making plans electronically available to local dispatch centers and first responders through mobile data terminals and mobile data computers; and (3) enabling law enforcement to consult with schools to develop emergency plans, including such plan data, to ensure that plans are comprehensive, complete, and current.  Requires the Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to give preferential consideration to an application for a grant for such an activity from a jurisdiction that demonstrates that: (1) the activity will cover a significant number of schools, (2) such jurisdiction uses (or will use such grant to develop) an electronic record management system that is compatible across multiple jurisdictions, or (3) there is community interest with respect to such activity. Reauthorizes such Program for FY2014-FY2017.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Multi-Hazard School Disaster 
Planning and Response Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. EXPANDING PERMISSIBLE USES OF FUNDS UNDER THE MATCHING GRANT 
              PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY TO IMPROVE INFORMATION 
              SHARING BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SCHOOLS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a(b)) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph 
                (6); and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following 
                new paragraph:
            ``(5) Any law enforcement and school information sharing 
        activity described in subsection (g)(1).''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(g) Law Enforcement and School Information Sharing Activities.--
            ``(1) In general.--For purposes of subsection (b)(5), a law 
        enforcement and school information sharing activity described 
        in this paragraph is any of the following activities conducted 
        in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4):
                    ``(A) Establishing or improving an electronic data 
                management system for the purpose of sharing specified 
                emergency response plan data with first responders.
                    ``(B) Assisting local law enforcement and local 
                schools with costs associated with collecting 
                information on, evaluating, updating, and digitizing 
                specified emergency response plan data and making such 
                plans electronically available to local dispatch 
                centers and first responders through mobile data 
                terminals and mobile data computers.
                    ``(C) Enabling law enforcement to consult with 
                schools to develop emergency plans, including specified 
                emergency response plan data, in order to ensure such 
                plans are comprehensive, complete, and current.
            ``(2) Specified emergency response plan data.--For purposes 
        of paragraph (1), the term `specified emergency response plan 
        data' means, with respect to a school, emergency plan and 
        response information, as specified by the Attorney General, for 
        such school--
                    ``(A) that includes floor plans, aerial and 
                internal photographs, and key emergency contact 
                information for administrative personnel, custodial 
                staff, and relevant service vendors for such school; 
                and
                    ``(B) that is to be shared, in accordance with 
                paragraph (3), with only first responders.
            ``(3) Dissemination of data.--Any specified emergency 
        response plan data that is disseminated through a law 
        enforcement and school information sharing activity for which 
        funds are made available under this part shall be so 
        disseminated only to a local dispatch center for first 
        responders through an electronic means and for purposes of 
        being made available to mobile data terminals or mobile data 
        computers of first responders.
            ``(4) Review and update of data.--Any specified emergency 
        response plan data that is disseminated through a law 
        enforcement and school information sharing activity for which 
        funds are made available under a grant under this part shall be 
        annually reviewed by the State, unit of local government, or 
        Indian tribe receiving such grant and updated as necessary.''.
    (b) Preferential Consideration for Applications for New Authorized 
Uses.--Section 2701(c) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 3797a(c)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Consideration.--In awarding'' and 
        inserting the following: ``Considerations.--
            ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), in awarding''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(2) Preferential consideration for applications for 
        information sharing purposes.--In awarding grants under this 
        part for a use described in subsection (b)(5), the Director 
        shall give preferential consideration, if feasible, to an 
        application from a jurisdiction that demonstrates the activity 
        for which the grant will be used will cover a significant 
        number of schools, demonstrates such jurisdiction uses (or will 
        use such grant to develop) an electronic record management 
        system that is compatible across multiple jurisdictions, or 
        demonstrates community interest with respect to such activity 
        for which the grant will be used.''.
    (c) Funding.--
            (1) Reauthorization of program.--Section 2705 of such Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is amended by striking ``2001 through 2009'' 
        and inserting ``2014 through 2017''.
            (2) Additional authorization for funds for new authorized 
        uses.--Such section is further amended by adding at the end the 
        following new sentence: ``In addition to the amounts authorized 
        to be appropriated under the previous sentence for a fiscal 
        year, there is authorized to be appropriated for grants under 
        this part for a use described in section 2701(b)(5), 
        $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2014 through 2017.''.