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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4661 

To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to any entity for the construction 

of a Federal facility unless the entity has in effect a policy of conducting 

a criminal background check on an employee before allowing the employee 

to participate in the construction of a public elementary school or secondary school, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 31, 2006 

Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Government Reform, 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 prohibit the provision of Federal funds to any entity 

for the construction of a Federal facility unless the entity 

has in effect a policy of conducting a criminal background check on an employee before allowing the employee to participate in the construction of a public elementary school or secondary school, 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, 
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Background Check for 

3 Student Safety Act of 2006’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 The Congress finds as follows: 

6 (1) The security of the Nation’s schools must 

7 be of the highest priority. 

8 (2) On September 1, 2004, Chechen terrorists 

9 seized a school in Beslan, Russia, and held more 

10 than 1,000 students, teachers, administrators, and 

11 parents hostage for 3 days before killing 330 indi12 viduals, including more than half of the children in 

13 the school. 

14 (3) Reports have indicated that the Chechen 

15 terrorists may have planted weapons in the floor16 boards of the school during a construction project 

17 that took place over the summer of 2004. 

18 (4) Workers at school construction sites have 

19 unfettered access to the school and blueprints detail20 ing its layout. 

21 (5) Such complete familiarity with and access 

22 to the school allows an individual to gather informa23 tion and plant weaponry that could be used in future 

24 attacks, as occurred in Beslan. 
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1 SEC. 2. CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON INDIVIDUALS 

2 PARTICIPATING IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 

3 PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY 

4 SCHOOL. 

5 (a) PROHIBITION.—No Federal funds may be pro6 vided to any entity for the construction of a Federal facil7 ity unless the entity has in effect a policy of conducting 

8 a criminal background check on an employee before allow9 ing the employee— 

10 (1) to participate in the construction of a public 

11 elementary school or secondary school; or 

12 (2) to have access to blueprints or other mate13 rials with details on such construction. 

14 (b) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this Act: 

15 (1) The terms ‘‘elementary school’’ and ‘‘sec16 ondary school’’ have the meanings given to those 

17 terms in section 9101 of the Elementary and Sec18 ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

19 (2) The term ‘‘employee’’ includes any employee 

20 of the entity involved or of a contractor or subsidiary 

21 of the entity. 

22 (3) The term ‘‘Federal facility’’ includes any 

23 Federal building or other structure. 

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