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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5139 

To reauthorize the grant program for school security in the Omnibus Crime 

Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 1, 2018 

Mr. CHABOT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education 

and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 

Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 

the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To reauthorize the grant program for school security in 

the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. 

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 ‘‘Hire Our Heroes to 

5 Protect Our Schools Act of 2018’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds as follows: 

8 (1) According to 2016 data compiled by the 

9 U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil 


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1 Rights, only 24 percent of elementary schools and 

2 42 percent of high schools nationwide have school 

3 resource officers. 

4 (2) The absence of school resource officers in 

5 many cases has been attributed to the lack of finan6 cial resources or the availability of trained police of7 ficers to fulfill the role of school resource officers. 

8 (3) No one is better trained and better 

9 equipped to handle a potential school shooting situa10 tion, and therefore serve as a school resource officer, 

11 than our Nation’s men and women in law enforce12 ment, including retired officers and veterans. 

13 (4) In many cases, police officers and veterans 

14 retire in their early fifties, while they still have a 

15 number of years where they can provide a valuable 

16 service to our schools and communities by serving as 

17 a school resources officer. 

18 (5) Placing highly trained and professional re19 tired police officers and veterans in our schools as 

20 school resource officers is one of the easiest ways to 

21 bolster school security, and it can be achieved almost 

22 immediately. 


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1 SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 

2 It is the sense of Congress that school systems should 

3 make greater efforts to hire retired police officers and vet4 erans to be school resource officers. 

5 SEC. 4. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY. 

6 Part AA of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 

7 Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10551 et seq.) is 

8 amended— 

9 (1) in section 2701 (34 U.S.C. 10551)— 

10 (A) in subsection (a)— 

11 (i) by striking ‘‘Director of the Office 

12 of Community Oriented Policing Services’’ 

13 and inserting ‘‘Director of the Bureau of 

14 Justice Assistance’’; and 

15 (ii) by striking ‘‘including the place16 ment and use of metal detectors and other 

17 deterrent measures’’ and inserting 

18 ‘‘through evidence-based training and tech19 nical assistance to prevent violence and 

20 through the use of appropriate tech21 nologies, including the placement and use 

22 of metal detectors and other deterrent 

23 measures and emergency notification and 

24 response technologies’’; 

25 (B) in subsection (b)— 


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1 (i) by redesignating paragraphs (5) 

2 and (6) as paragraphs (10) and (11), re3 spectively; 

4 (ii) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 

5 through (4) as paragraphs (2) through (5), 

6 respectively, and by inserting before para7 graph (2) the following: 

8 ‘‘(1) Assignment of additional school resource 

9 officers (as such term is defined in part Q), with pri10 ority in making such assignments given to law en11 forcement officers who are veterans (as such term is 

12 defined in section 101(2) of title 38, United States 

13 Code) or retired law enforcement officers who have 

14 returned to service.’’; 

15 (iii) in paragraph (5), as so redesig16 nated— 

17 (I) by striking ‘‘crisis’’ and in18 serting ‘‘school threat assessment 

19 and’’; and 

20 (II) by inserting ‘‘and school per21 sonnel,’’ after ‘‘law enforcement agen22 cies’’; and 

23 (iv) by inserting after paragraph (5), 

24 as so redesignated, the following: 


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1 ‘‘(6) Training to prevent student violence 

2 against others and self, including training for local 

3 law enforcement officers, school personnel, and stu4 dents. 

5 ‘‘(7) The development and operation of anony6 mous reporting systems for threats of school vio7 lence, including mobile telephone applications, hot8 lines, and internet websites. 

9 ‘‘(8) Subgrants to State or local law enforce10 ment agencies, schools, school districts, nonprofit or11 ganizations, or Indian tribal organizations to imple12 ment grants awarded under this section. 

13 ‘‘(9) Acquisition and installation of technology 

14 for expedited notification of local law enforcement 

15 during an emergency.’’; 

16 (C) in subsection (c)— 

17 (i) by striking ‘‘and has’’ and insert18 ing ‘‘has’’; and 

19 (ii) by inserting before the period at 

20 the end the following: ‘‘, and will use evi21 dence-based strategies and programs, such 

22 as those identified by the Comprehensive 

23 School Safety Initiative of the Department 

24 of Justice’’; and 


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1 (D) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ‘‘50 

2 percent’’ and inserting ‘‘75 percent’’; 

3 (2) in section 2702 (34 U.S.C. 10552)— 

4 (A) in subsection (a)(2), in the matter pre5 ceding subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘child 

6 psychologists’’ and inserting ‘‘mental health 

7 professionals’’; and 

8 (B) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘this 

9 part’’ and inserting ‘‘the Hire Our Heroes to 

10 Protect Our Schools Act of 2018’’; 

11 (3) in section 2704(1) (34 U.S.C. 10554(1)), by 

12 striking ‘‘a public’’ and inserting ‘‘an’’; and 

13 (4) in section 2705— 

14 (A) by striking ‘‘$30,000,000’’ and insert15 ing ‘‘$100,000,000’’; and 

16 (B) by striking ‘‘2001 through 2009’’ and 

17 inserting ‘‘2019 through 2024’’. 

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