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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 9754 

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require 

maintenance of State funds for school resource officers in elementary 

schools and secondary schools, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 

Mr. BERGMAN (for himself, Mr. HUIZENGA, and Mrs. MCCLAIN) introduced 

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 

the Workforce 

A BILL 

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 

of 1965 to require maintenance of State funds for school 

resource officers in elementary schools and secondary 

schools, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘School Resource Offi5 cer Funding Protection Act of 2024’’ or the ‘‘SRO Fund6 ing Protection Act of 2024’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FUNDING. 

2 Subpart 2 of part F of title VIII of the Elementary 

3 and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7901 

4 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 

5 ‘‘SEC. 8549D. SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FUNDING MAIN6 TENANCE. 

7 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning with the first fiscal 

8 year beginning after the date of the enactment of this sec9 tion, a State educational agency may receive the total 

10 amount of funds that the agency is eligible to receive 

11 under a program under this Act for any fiscal year only 

12 if the agency maintains funding for school resource officer 

13 programs in elementary schools and secondary schools 

14 served by the agency at an amount that is not less than 

15 the amount expended by the agency for such school re16 source officer programs in the most recent fiscal year pre17 ceding such fiscal year in which the agency, as applica18 ble— 

19 ‘‘(1) did not receive a waiver under subsection 

20 (c); or 

21 ‘‘(2) complied with the requirements of this sec22 tion. 

23 ‘‘(b) REPORT.—A State educational agency shall, on 

24 an annual basis, submit to the Secretary a certification 

25 of compliance with the requirement under subsection (a) 

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1 tion as the Secretary may require, including a public re2 port detailing, for the fiscal year in which the report is 

3 submitted and each of the 5 preceding fiscal years— 

4 ‘‘(1) the amount of State funding for school re5 source officer programs in elementary schools and 

6 secondary schools served by the agency; and 

7 ‘‘(2) the number of school resource officers 

8 working in such elementary schools and secondary 

9 schools pursuant to such programs. 

10 ‘‘(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary may waive the require11 ment under subsection (a) for a State educational agency 

12 that submits to the Secretary a waiver request dem13 onstrating that extraordinary financial circumstances of 

14 the State resulted in a reduction in the amount of State 

15 funding for school resource officer programs in elementary 

16 schools and secondary schools served by the agency. 

17 ‘‘(d) NONCOMPLIANCE.—In the case of a State edu18 cational agency that fails to meet the requirement under 

19 subsection (a) for a fiscal year and does not receive a waiv20 er under subsection (c), the Secretary shall, for the fol21 lowing fiscal year, reduce the total amount of funds that 

22 the agency is eligible to receive under programs under this 

23 Act in such following fiscal year by an amount in propor24 tion to— 


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1 ‘‘(1) the amount of State funding for school re2 source officer programs in elementary schools and 

3 secondary schools served by the agency for the fiscal 

4 year in which the agency fails to meet such require5 ment; compared to 

6 ‘‘(2) the amount of such funding expended by 

7 the agency in the most recent fiscal year preceding 

8 such fiscal year in which the agency, as applicable— 

9 ‘‘(A) did not receive a waiver under sub10 section (c); or 

11 ‘‘(B) complied with the requirements of 

12 this section. 

13 ‘‘(e) SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER DEFINED.—For 

14 purposes of this section, the term ‘school resource officer’ 

15 has the meaning given such term in section 1709 of the 

16 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 

17 U.S.C. 10389).’’. 

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