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Calendar No. 24 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 146 

To enhance the safety of America’s schools. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 24 (legislative day, JANUARY 3), 2013 

Mrs. BOXER (for herself, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, and Mr. ROCKEFELLER) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on the Judiciary 

MARCH 12, 2013 

Reported by Mr. LEAHY, with an amendment 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

A BILL 

To enhance the safety of America’s schools. 

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 Safety En5 hancements Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY. 

2 Section 2701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

3 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a) is amend4 ed— 

5 (1) in subsection (b)— 

6 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

7 (i) by striking ‘‘Placement’’ and in8 serting ‘‘Installation’’; and 

9 (ii) by inserting ‘‘surveillance equip10 ment,’’ after ‘‘detectors,’’; 

11 (B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 

12 paragraph (6); and 

13 (C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 

14 following: 

15 ‘‘(5) Establishment of hotlines or tiplines for 

16 the reporting of potentially dangerous students and 

17 situations.’’; 

18 (2) in subsection (d), by striking paragraph (1) 

19 and inserting the following: 

20 ‘‘(1) The Federal share of the costs of a pro21 gram provided by a grant under subsection (a) shall 

22 be not more than 80 percent of the total of such 

23 costs.’’; and 

24 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

25 ‘‘(g) INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 60 days 

2 after the date of enactment of the School Safety En3 hancements Act of 2013, the Director and the Sec4 retary of Education, or the designee of the Sec5 retary, shall establish an interagency task force to 

6 develop and promulgate a set of advisory school 

7 safety guidelines. 

8 ‘‘(2) PUBLICATION OF GUIDELINES.—Not later 

9 than 1 year after the date of enactment of the 

10 School Safety Enhancements Act of 2013, the advi11 sory school safety guidelines promulgated by the 

12 interagency task force shall be published in the Fed13 eral Register. 

14 ‘‘(3) REQUIRED CONSULTATION.—In developing 

15 the final advisory school safety guidelines under this 

16 subsection, the interagency task force shall consult 

17 with stakeholders and interested parties, including 

18 parents, teachers, and agencies.’’. 

19 SEC. 3. APPLICATIONS. 

20 Section 2702(a)(2) of title I of the Omnibus Crime 

21 Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 

22 3797b(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows: 

23 ‘‘(2) be accompanied by a report— 

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1 diction over the schools where the safety im2 provements will be implemented; and 

3 ‘‘(B) demonstrating that each proposed use 

4 of the grant funds will be— 

5 ‘‘(i) an effective means for improving 

6 the safety of 1 or more schools; 

7 ‘‘(ii) consistent with a comprehensive 

8 approach to preventing school violence; and 

9 ‘‘(iii) individualized to the needs of 

10 each school at which those improvements 

11 are to be made.’’. 

12 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

13 Section 2705 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

14 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is amend15 ed— 

16 (1) by striking ‘‘$30,000,000’’ and inserting 

17 ‘‘$100,000,000’’; and 

18 (2) by striking ‘‘2001 through 2009’’ and in19 serting ‘‘2014 through 2023’’. 

20 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

21 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘School and Campus 

22 Safety Enhancements Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY. 

2 Section 2701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

3 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a) is amend4 ed— 

5 (1) in subsection (b)— 

6 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

7 (i) by striking ‘‘Placement’’ and insert8 ing ‘‘Installation’’; and 

9 (ii) by inserting ‘‘surveillance equip10 ment,’’ after ‘‘detectors,’’; 

11 (B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 

12 paragraph (6); and 

13 (C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the fol14 lowing: 

15 ‘‘(5) Establishment of hotlines or tiplines for the 

16 reporting of potentially dangerous students and situa17 tions.’’; and 

18 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

19 ‘‘(g) INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE.— 

20 ‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 60 days 

21 after the date of enactment of the School and Campus 

22 Safety Enhancements Act of 2013, the Director and 

23 the Secretary of Education, or the designee of the Sec24 retary, shall establish an interagency task force to de25 velop and promulgate a set of advisory school safety 

26 guidelines. 


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1 ‘‘(2) PUBLICATION OF GUIDELINES.—Not later 

2 than 1 year after the date of enactment of the School 

3 and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of 2013, the 

4 advisory school safety guidelines promulgated by the 

5 interagency task force shall be published in the Fed6 eral Register. 

7 ‘‘(3) REQUIRED CONSULTATION.—In developing 

8 the final advisory school safety guidelines under this 

9 subsection, the interagency task force shall consult 

10 with stakeholders and interested parties, including 

11 parents, teachers, and agencies.’’. 

12 SEC. 3. APPLICATIONS. 

13 Section 2702(a)(2) of title I of the Omnibus Crime 

14 Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 

15 3797b(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows: 

16 ‘‘(2) be accompanied by a report— 

17 ‘‘(A) signed by the heads of each law en18 forcement agency and school district with juris19 diction over the schools where the safety improve20 ments will be implemented; and 

21 ‘‘(B) demonstrating that each proposed use 

22 of the grant funds will be— 

23 ‘‘(i) an effective means for improving 

24 the safety of 1 or more schools; 


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1 ‘‘(ii) consistent with a comprehensive 

2 approach to preventing school violence; and 

3 ‘‘(iii) individualized to the needs of 

4 each school at which those improvements are 

5 to be made.’’. 

6 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

7 Section 2705 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

8 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is amend9 ed— 

10 (1) by striking ‘‘$30,000,000’’ and inserting 

11 ‘‘$40,000,000’’; and 

12 (2) by striking ‘‘2001 through 2009’’ and insert13 ing ‘‘2014 through 2023’’. 

14 SEC. 5. ACCOUNTABILITY. 

15 Section 2701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

16 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a), as amended 

17 by section 2 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end 

18 the following: 

19 ‘‘(h) ACCOUNTABILITY.—All grants awarded by the At20 torney General under this part shall be subject to the fol21 lowing accountability provisions: 

22 ‘‘(1) AUDIT REQUIREMENT.— 

23 ‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—In this paragraph, the 

24 term ‘unresolved audit finding’ means a finding 

25 in the final audit report of the Inspector General 


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1 of the Department of Justice that the audited 

2 grantee has utilized grant funds for an unau3 thorized expenditure or otherwise unallowable 

4 cost that is not closed or resolved within 12 

5 months from the date when the final audit report 

6 is issued. 

7 ‘‘(B) AUDITS.—Beginning in the first fiscal 

8 year beginning after the date of enactment of 

9 this subsection, and in each fiscal year there10 after, the Inspector General of the Department of 

11 Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of 

12 grants under this part to prevent waste, fraud, 

13 and abuse of funds by grantees. The Inspector 

14 General shall determine the appropriate number 

15 of grantees to be audited each year. 

16 ‘‘(C) MANDATORY EXCLUSION.—A recipient 

17 of grant funds under this part that is found to 

18 have an unresolved audit finding shall not be eli19 gible to receive grant funds under this part dur20 ing the first 2 fiscal years beginning after the 

21 end of the 12-month period described in subpara22 graph (A). 

23 ‘‘(D) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under 

24 this part, the Attorney General shall give pri25 ority to eligible applicants that did not have an 


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1 unresolved audit finding during the 3 fiscal 

2 years before submitting an application for a 

3 grant under this part. 

4 ‘‘(E) REIMBURSEMENT.—If an entity is 

5 awarded grant funds under this part during the 

6 2-fiscal-year period during which the entity is 

7 barred from receiving grants under subpara8 graph (C), the Attorney General shall— 

9 ‘‘(i) deposit an amount equal to the 

10 amount of the grant funds that were im11 properly awarded to the grantee into the 

12 General Fund of the Treasury; and 

13 ‘‘(ii) seek to recoup the costs of the re14 payment to the fund from the grant recipi15 ent that was erroneously awarded grant 

16 funds. 

17 ‘‘(2) NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION REQUIRE18 MENTS.— 

19 ‘‘(A) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this 

20 paragraph and the grant programs under this 

21 part, the term ‘nonprofit organization’ means an 

22 organization that is described in section 

23 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 

24 and is exempt from taxation under section 

25 501(a) of such Code. 


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1 ‘‘(B) PROHIBITION.—The Attorney General 

2 may not award a grant under this part to a 

3 nonprofit organization that holds money in off4 shore accounts for the purpose of avoiding pay5 ing the tax described in section 511(a) of the In6 ternal Revenue Code of 1986. 

7 ‘‘(C) DISCLOSURE.—Each nonprofit organi8 zation that is awarded a grant under this part 

9 and uses the procedures prescribed in regulations 

10 to create a rebuttable presumption of reasonable11 ness for the compensation of its officers, direc12 tors, trustees and key employees, shall disclose to 

13 the Attorney General, in the application for the 

14 grant, the process for determining such com15 pensation, including the independent persons in16 volved in reviewing and approving such com17 pensation, the comparability data used, and con18 temporaneous substantiation of the deliberation 

19 and decision. Upon request, the Attorney General 

20 shall make the information disclosed under this 

21 subparagraph available for public inspection. 

22 ‘‘(3) CONFERENCE EXPENDITURES.— 

23 ‘‘(A) LIMITATION.—No amounts authorized 

24 to be appropriated to the Department of Justice 

25 under this part may be used by the Attorney 


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1 General, or by any individual or entity awarded 

2 discretionary funds through a cooperative agree3 ment under this part, to host or support any ex4 penditure for conferences that uses more than 

5 $20,000 in funds made available by the Depart6 ment of Justice, unless the Deputy Attorney Gen7 eral or such Assistant Attorney Generals, Direc8 tors, or principal deputies as the Deputy Attor9 ney General may designate, provides prior writ10 ten authorization that the funds may be ex11 pended to host the conference. 

12 ‘‘(B) WRITTEN APPROVAL.—Written ap13 proval under subparagraph (A) shall include a 

14 written estimate of all costs associated with the 

15 conference, including the cost of all food, bev16 erages, audio-visual equipment, honoraria for 

17 speakers, and entertainment. 

18 ‘‘(C) REPORT.—The Deputy Attorney Gen19 eral shall submit an annual report to the Com20 mittee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the 

21 Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Rep22 resentatives on all conference expenditures ap23 proved under this paragraph. 

24 ‘‘(4) ANNUAL CERTIFICATION.—Beginning in the 

25 first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment 


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1 of this subsection, the Attorney General shall submit, 

2 to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee 

3 on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee 

4 on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropria5 tions of the House of Representatives, an annual cer6 tification— 

7 ‘‘(A) indicating whether— 

8 ‘‘(i) all audits issued by the Office of 

9 the Inspector General under paragraph (1) 

10 have been completed and reviewed by the 

11 appropriate Assistant Attorney General or 

12 Director; 

13 ‘‘(ii) all mandatory exclusions required 

14 under paragraph (1)(C) have been issued; 

15 and 

16 ‘‘(iii) all reimbursements required 

17 under paragraph (1)(E) have been made; 

18 and 

19 ‘‘(B) that includes a list of any grant re20 cipients excluded under paragraph (1) from the 

21 previous year.’’. 

22 SEC. 6. CAMPUS SAFETY ACT OF 2013. 

23 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 

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1 curity Safety Act of 2013’’ or the ‘‘CAMPUS Safety Act 

2 of 2013’’. 

3 (b) NATIONAL CENTER FOR CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFE4 TY.—Subpart 1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime 

5 Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et 

6 seq.) is amended— 

7 (1) in section 501 (42 U.S.C. 3751)— 

8 (A) in subsection (a)(1)— 

9 (i) in the matter preceding subpara10 graph (A), by inserting ‘‘or purposes’’ after 

11 ‘‘one or more of the following programs’’; 

12 and 

13 (ii) by adding at the end the following: 

14 ‘‘(H) Making subawards to institutions of 

15 higher education and other nonprofit organiza16 tions to assist the National Center for Campus 

17 Public Safety in carrying out the functions of 

18 the Center required under section 509(c).’’; and 

19 (B) in subsection (b)— 

20 (i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘or’’ 

21 at the end; 

22 (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking the 

23 period and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 

24 (iii) by adding at the end the fol25 lowing: 


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1 ‘‘(3) institutions of higher education and other 

2 nonprofit organizations, for purposes of carrying out 

3 section 509.’’; and 

4 (2) by adding at the end the following: 

5 ‘‘SEC. 509. NATIONAL CENTER FOR CAMPUS PUBLIC SAFE6 TY. 

7 ‘‘(a) DEFINITION OF INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDU8 CATION.—In this section, the term ‘institution of higher 

9 education’ has the meaning given the term in section 101 

10 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 

11 ‘‘(b) AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH AND OPERATE CEN12 TER.—The Attorney General may establish and operate a 

13 National Center for Campus Public Safety (referred to in 

14 this section as the ‘Center’). 

15 ‘‘(c) FUNCTIONS OF THE CENTER.—The Center shall— 

16 ‘‘(1) provide quality education and training for 

17 public safety personnel of institutions of higher edu18 cation and their collaborative partners, including 

19 campus mental health agencies; 

20 ‘‘(2) foster quality research to strengthen the 

21 safety and security of institutions of higher education; 

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1 ty, the prevention of violence against persons and 

2 property, and emergency response and evacuation 

3 procedures; 

4 ‘‘(4) coordinate with the Secretary of Homeland 

5 Security, the Secretary of Education, State, local and 

6 tribal governments and law enforcement agencies, pri7 vate and nonprofit organizations and associations, 

8 and other stakeholders, to develop protocols and best 

9 practices to prevent, protect against and respond to 

10 dangerous and violent situations involving an imme11 diate threat to the safety of the campus community; 

12 ‘‘(5) promote the development and dissemination 

13 of effective behavioral threat assessment and manage14 ment models to prevent campus violence; 

15 ‘‘(6) identify campus safety information (includ16 ing ways to increase off-campus housing safety) and 

17 identify resources available from the Department of 

18 Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the 

19 Department of Education, State, local, and tribal 

20 governments and law enforcement agencies, and pri21 vate and nonprofit organizations and associations; 

22 ‘‘(7) promote cooperation, collaboration, and 

23 consistency in prevention, response, and problem-solv24 ing methods among public safety and emergency 

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1 cation and their campus- and non-campus-based col2 laborative partners, including law enforcement, emer3 gency management, mental health services, and other 

4 relevant agencies; 

5 ‘‘(8) disseminate standardized formats and mod6 els for mutual aid agreements and memoranda of un7 derstanding between campus security agencies and 

8 other public safety organizations and mental health 

9 agencies; and 

10 ‘‘(9) report annually to Congress on activities 

11 performed by the Center during the previous 12 

12 months. 

13 ‘‘(d) COORDINATION WITH AVAILABLE RESOURCES.— 

14 In establishing the Center, the Attorney General shall— 

15 ‘‘(1) coordinate with the Secretary of Homeland 

16 Security, the Secretary of Education, and appro17 priate State or territory officials; 

18 ‘‘(2) ensure coordination with campus public 

19 safety resources within the Department of Homeland 

20 Security, including within the Federal Emergency 

21 Management Agency, and the Department of Edu22 cation; and 

23 ‘‘(3) coordinate within the Department of Justice 

24 and existing grant programs to ensure against dupli25 cation with the program authorized by this section. 


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1 ‘‘(e) REPORTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY.—At the end of 

2 each fiscal year, the Attorney General shall— 

3 ‘‘(1) issue a report that assesses the impacts, out4 comes and effectiveness of the grants distributed to 

5 carry out this section; 

6 ‘‘(2) in compiling such report, assess instances of 

7 duplicative activity, if any, performed through grants 

8 distributed to carry out this section and other grant 

9 programs maintained by the Department of Justice, 

10 the Department of Education, and the Department of 

11 Homeland Security; and 

12 ‘‘(3) make such report available on the Depart13 ment of Justice website and submit such report to the 

14 Senate and House Judiciary Committees and the 

15 Senate and House Appropriations Committees.’’. 

16 (c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section 

17 shall preclude public elementary and secondary schools or 

18 their larger governing agencies from receiving the informa19 tional and training benefits of the National Center for Cam20 pus Public Safety authorized under section 509 of the Om21 nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as added 

22 by this Act. 


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Calendar No. 24 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 146 

A BILL 

To enhance the safety of America’s schools. 

MARCH 12, 2013 

Reported with an amendment 


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