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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1305 

To provide block grants to assign armed law enforcement officers to 

elementary and secondary schools. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 26, 2023 

Mr. SCOTT of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Finance 

A BILL 

To provide block grants to assign armed law enforcement 

officers to elementary and secondary 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 Guardian Act 

5 of 2023’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SCHOOL GUARDIAN GRANTS. 

7 Title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

8 Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) is amended 

9 by adding at the end the following: 


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1 ‘‘PART PP—SCHOOL GUARDIAN GRANTS 

2 ‘‘SEC. 3061. GRANTS FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AT 

3 SCHOOLS. 

4 ‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 

5 ‘‘(1) the term ‘K–12 school’ means an elemen6 tary school or secondary school, as such terms are 

7 defined under section 8101 of the Elementary and 

8 Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801); 

9 and 

10 ‘‘(2) the term ‘local educational agency’ has the 

11 meaning given such term under section 8101 of the 

12 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 

13 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

14 ‘‘(b) GRANT AUTHORIZATION.—Subject to the avail15 ability of appropriations, the Attorney General shall make 

16 a grant to each State that elects to receive a grant under 

17 this section for the cost of assigning armed law enforce18 ment officers to provide security at K–12 schools, which 

19 may be used for the cost of pay, training, and equipment 

20 for the law enforcement officers. 

21 ‘‘(c) AMOUNT.—A grant under this section to a State 

22 for a fiscal year shall be in an amount that bears the same 

23 ratio to the total amount awarded under this section for 

24 the fiscal year as the total number of individuals attending 

25 a K–12 school in the State bears to the total number of 

26 individuals attending a K–12 school in the United States. 


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1 ‘‘(d) ADMINISTRATION OF GRANTS.—The use of, and 

2 award of subgrants using, amounts received under this 

3 section shall be administered by the head of the chief law 

4 enforcement agency of a State. 

5 ‘‘(e) SUBGRANTS.— 

6 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of the chief law 

7 enforcement officer of a State may award a subgrant 

8 to a law enforcement agency of a unit of local gov9 ernment in the State for the cost of hiring 1 or more 

10 full-time law enforcement officers who will be as11 signed to provide full-time security at K–12 schools. 

12 ‘‘(2) AGREEMENTS.— 

13 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A law enforcement 

14 agency of a unit of local government desiring a 

15 subgrant under this subsection shall enter into 

16 a written agreement with each K–12 school in 

17 the jurisdiction of the agency, or with the local 

18 educational agency that serves such K–12 

19 school, which shall indicate the number of law 

20 enforcement officers the law enforcement agen21 cy will hire and assign to each such K–12 

22 school if awarded a subgrant. 

23 ‘‘(B) OFFICERS AT EACH SCHOOL.—The 

24 written agreements entered into by a law en25 forcement agency under subparagraph (A) shall 


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1 provide for the hiring of not less than 1 full2 time law enforcement officer who will be as3 signed to provide full-time security at each K– 

4 12 school in the jurisdiction of the law enforce5 ment agency. 

6 ‘‘(3) AMOUNT.—The amount of a subgrant 

7 under this subsection to a law enforcement agency 

8 of a unit of local government shall be based on the 

9 number of law enforcement officers the law enforce10 ment agency will hire, as indicated in the written 

11 agreements described in paragraph (2). 

12 ‘‘(f) REPORTING.—Each State that receives a grant 

13 under this section for a fiscal year shall submit to the At14 torney General a report regarding the use of the grant 

15 for that fiscal year, which shall include— 

16 ‘‘(1) the number of subgrants awarded; 

17 ‘‘(2) the amount of each subgrant awarded; 

18 ‘‘(3) the number of law enforcement officers 

19 hired to provide security at a K–12 school using 

20 amounts received under the grant; and 

21 ‘‘(4) the number of K–12 schools in the State 

22 with 1 or more full-time law enforcement officers for 

23 whom the cost of the pay, training, or equipment for 

24 the law enforcement officers was paid using amounts 

25 received under the grant. 


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1 ‘‘(g) FAILURE TO USE AMOUNTS.— 

2 ‘‘(1) RETURN.—A State shall return to the At3 torney General any amounts received under a grant 

4 under this section for a fiscal year which are unobli5 gated as of the day after the last day of the fiscal 

6 year. 

7 ‘‘(2) USE.—Amounts returned to the Attorney 

8 General under paragraph (1) shall be merged with 

9 other amounts available to carry out this section and 

10 remain available until expended to the Attorney 

11 General to make grants under this section, without 

12 further appropriation. 

13 ‘‘(3) REPORTING.—The Attorney General shall 

14 submit to Congress a report that provides, for each 

15 fiscal year, the total amount of funds provided for 

16 that fiscal year that are returned under paragraph 

17 (1) and the amount of funds provided for that fiscal 

18 year that are returned under paragraph (1) by each 

19 State. 

20 ‘‘(h) FUNDING.— 

21 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Effective on the date of en22 actment of this Act, of the unobligated balances of 

23 amounts made available to the Internal Revenue 

24 Service under Public Law 117–169 (136 Stat. 

25 1818), $80,000,000,000 shall be transferred, on a 


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1 pro rata basis, to the Attorney General to carry out 

2 this section. 

3 ‘‘(2) AVAILABILITY AND USE.—Amounts trans4 ferred under paragraph (1) shall be merged with, 

5 and subject to the same terms and conditions as, 

6 other amounts available to carry out this section, 

7 and shall remain available until expended. 

8 ‘‘(3) ANNUAL AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNTS.— 

9 From amounts transferred under paragraph (1), the 

10 Attorney General may make not more than 

11 $8,000,000,000 in grants under this section for each 

12 of fiscal years 2024 through 2033.’’. 

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