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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6063 

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 

enhance the safety of elementary schools and secondary schools. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 30, 2010 

Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 

Act of 1968 to enhance the safety of elementary schools 

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 Safety En5 hancements Act of 2010’’. 

6 SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY. 

7 Section 2701 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

8 Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a) is amended— 

9 (1) in subsection (b)— 

10 (A) in paragraph (1)— 


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1 (i) by striking ‘‘Placement’’ and in2 serting ‘‘Installation’’; and 

3 (ii) by inserting ‘‘surveillance equip4 ment,’’ after ‘‘detectors,’’; 

5 (B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 

6 paragraph (6); and 

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

8 following: 

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

10 the reporting of potentially dangerous students or 

11 situations.’’; 

12 (2) by striking subsection (d)(1) and inserting 

13 the following: 

14 ‘‘(1) The Federal share of the costs of a pro15 gram provided by a grant under subsection (a) shall 

16 be not more than 75 percent of the total of such 

17 costs.’’; and 

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

19 ‘‘(g) INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE.—Not later than 60 

20 days after the date of enactment of the School Safety En21 hancements Act of 2010, the Director and the Secretary 

22 of Education, or the designee of the Secretary, shall estab23 lish an interagency task force to develop and promulgate 

24 a set of advisory school safety guidelines. The advisory 

25 school safety guidelines shall be published in the Federal 


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1 Register by not later than one year after such date of en2 actment. In developing the final advisory school safety 

3 guidelines, the interagency task force shall consult with 

4 stakeholders and interested parties, including parents, 

5 teachers, and relevant State and local agencies.’’. 

6 SEC. 3. APPLICATIONS. 

7 Section 2702(a)(2) of the Omnibus Crime Control 

8 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797b(a)(2)) is 

9 amended to read as follows: 

10 ‘‘(2) be accompanied by a report, signed by the 

11 chief education officer and the attorney general or 

12 other chief law enforcement executive of the State, 

13 unit of local government, or Indian tribe, certifying 

14 that each proposed use of the grant funds will be— 

15 ‘‘(A) an effective means for improving the 

16 safety of one or more schools; 

17 ‘‘(B) consistent with a comprehensive ap18 proach to preventing school violence; and 

19 ‘‘(C) individualized to the needs of each 

20 school at which those improvements are to be 

21 made.’’. 

22 SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS. 

23 Section 2703 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

24 Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797c) is amended by 

25 striking ‘‘and the activities for which those funds were 


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1 used’’ and inserting ‘‘and a detailed itemization of how 

2 those funds were utilized’’. 

3 SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

4 Section 2705 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

5 Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is amended by 

6 striking ‘‘$30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 

7 through 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$50,000,000 for each of the 

8 fiscal years 2011 through 2014’’. 

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