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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3665 

To establish a grant program to encourage schools to conduct independent 

facility security risk assessments and make hard security improvements, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 10, 2019 

Mr. WILLIAMS (for himself and Mr. DEUTCH) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To establish a grant program to encourage schools to conduct 

independent facility security risk assessments and make 

hard security improvements, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘School Violence Pre5 vention and Mitigation Act of 2019’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SCHOOL SECURITY GRANT. 

7 The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 

8 1968 is amended by inserting after part BB the following: 


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1 ‘‘PART CC—RISK ASSESSMENT AND HARD 

2 SECURITY GRANT 

3 ‘‘SEC. 2901. INDEPENDENT FACILITY SECURITY RISK AS4 SESSMENTS. 

5 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning not later than 180 

6 days after the date of enactment of this part, the Director 

7 of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (re8 ferred to in this part as the ‘COPS Director’) shall award 

9 grants to public schools to have independent facility secu10 rity risk assessments performed. 

11 ‘‘(b) APPLICATION.— 

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive a 

13 grant under this section, a public school shall submit 

14 to the COPS Director an application at such time, 

15 in such manner, and containing such information as 

16 the COPS Director may require, including— 

17 ‘‘(A) the size of the school; 

18 ‘‘(B) a comprehensive report on the finan19 cial state of the school, including any Federal, 

20 State, or local funds used in the school’s budg21 et; and 

22 ‘‘(C) a certification to the Attorney Gen23 eral that the school is unable to cover the cost 

24 of an independent facility security risk assess25 ment without the grant awarded under this sec26 tion. 


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1 ‘‘(2) PRIORITY.—The COPS Director, in 

2 awarding a grant under this section, shall give pri3 ority to applications of public schools that have expe4 rienced an event in which an individual inflicts dead5 ly harm or attempts to inflict deadly harm against 

6 multiple individuals. 

7 ‘‘(c) INELIGIBILITY.— 

8 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A public school shall be in9 eligible to receive a grant under this section if it— 

10 ‘‘(A) received a grant under this section or 

11 section 2902 in the previous 5 fiscal years; or 

12 ‘‘(B) receives a grant under section 2902 

13 in the same fiscal year. 

14 ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph 

15 (1), in the case that a grant recipient experiences an 

16 event in which an individual inflicts deadly harm or 

17 attempts to inflict deadly harm against multiple in18 dividuals, such grant recipient shall be eligible to re19 ceive an additional grant under this section or sec20 tion 2902 in the fiscal year after the date of the 

21 event. 

22 ‘‘SEC. 2902. HARD SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS. 

23 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning not later than 180 

24 days after the date of enactment of this part, the COPS 


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1 Director shall award grants to public schools for the pur2 pose of making hard security improvements to schools. 

3 ‘‘(b) APPLICATION.— 

4 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive a 

5 grant under this section, a public school shall submit 

6 to the COPS Director an application at such time, 

7 in such manner, and containing such information as 

8 the COPS Director may require, which application 

9 shall include— 

10 ‘‘(A) the size of the school; 

11 ‘‘(B) a comprehensive report on the finan12 cial state of the school, including any Federal, 

13 State, or local funds used in the school’s budg14 et; 

15 ‘‘(C) a comprehensive description of pre16 vious improvements made to the school meant 

17 to address school security related vulnerabili18 ties; 

19 ‘‘(D) the specific products and services 

20 that will be purchased with the grant funds and 

21 an estimate of such costs and services; and 

22 ‘‘(E) the results of the school’s most recent 

23 independent facility security risk assessment. 


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1 ‘‘(2) PRIORITY.—The COPS Director, in 

2 awarding a grant under this section, shall give pri3 ority to applications of schools that— 

4 ‘‘(A) have experienced an event in which 

5 an individual inflicts deadly harm or attempts 

6 to inflict deadly harm against multiple individ7 uals; or 

8 ‘‘(B) have a higher tier of vulnerability 

9 score according to a school’s most recent inde10 pendent facility security risk assessment. 

11 ‘‘(c) INELIGIBILITY.— 

12 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A public school shall be in13 eligible to receive a grant under this section if— 

14 ‘‘(A) a public school received a grant under 

15 this section in the previous 5 fiscal years; or 

16 ‘‘(B) a public school receives a grant under 

17 section 2901 in the same fiscal year. 

18 ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph 

19 (1), in the case that a grant recipient experiences an 

20 event in which an individual inflicts deadly harm or 

21 attempts to inflict deadly harm against multiple in22 dividuals, such grant recipient shall be eligible to re23 ceive an additional grant under this section or sec24 tion 2901 in any fiscal year after the date on which 

25 the event occurred. 


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1 ‘‘(d) MATCHING FUNDS.— 

2 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Federal share of a 

3 grant received under this part may not exceed 50 

4 percent of the hard security improvement costs. 

5 ‘‘(2) WAIVER.—The COPS Director may waive 

6 in whole or in part, the matching requirement under 

7 paragraph (1) in the case that the recipient has a 

8 financial need for such waiver. 

9 ‘‘(e) GRANT CONDITIONS.—A recipient of a grant 

10 under this section shall— 

11 ‘‘(1) use the grant to make hard security im12 provements identified as necessary by the most re13 cent independent facility security risk assessment; 

14 ‘‘(2) in the case that a panic alarm is not in15 stalled or operable according to the independent fa16 cility risk assessment, use the grant for the installa17 tion of at least 1 panic alarm for use in a school se18 curity emergency, including a non-fire evacuation, 

19 lockdown, or active shooter situation, which alarm— 

20 ‘‘(A) shall be directly linked to the local 

21 law enforcement agency that is closest in prox22 imity to the grant recipient; 

23 ‘‘(B) shall immediately transmit a signal 

24 or message to such law enforcement agency 

25 upon activation; and 


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1 ‘‘(C) shall not be audible within the public 

2 school building; 

3 ‘‘(3) before entering into a contract with a ven4 dor, obtain written confirmation from the law en5 forcement agency or entity that conducted the inde6 pendent facility security risk assessment that the im7 provement will mitigate a vulnerability identified in 

8 the independent facility security risk assessment; 

9 and 

10 ‘‘(4) ensure that hard security improvements 

11 comply with local building code requirements and 

12 standards. 

13 ‘‘SEC. 2903. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; REPORTS. 

14 ‘‘(a) INFORMATION DISSEMINATION.— 

15 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The COPS Director shall 

16 disseminate to each local educational agency in the 

17 United States information about the availability of 

18 grants under sections 2901 and 2902. 

19 ‘‘(2) EVENT NOTICE.—Not later than 30 days 

20 after an event in which an individual inflicts deadly 

21 harm or attempts to inflict deadly harm against 

22 multiple individuals occurs in a public school, the 

23 Director shall contact verbally the head of such pub24 lic school to provide notice of priority eligibility for 

25 grants under sections 2901 and 2902 and to offer 


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1 technical assistance in navigating the application 

2 process. 

3 ‘‘(b) GRANT RECIPIENT REPORT.—Not later than 1 

4 year after receiving a grant under section 2901 or 2902, 

5 the grant recipient shall submit to the COPS Director a 

6 copy of the results of each independent facility security 

7 risk assessment and a list of each hard improvement for 

8 which the grant funds were used by the recipient. 

9 ‘‘(c) COPS DIRECTOR REPORT.—Not later than 2 

10 years after the date of enactment of this part, and annu11 ally thereafter, the COPS Director shall submit to the ap12 propriate congressional committees a report on the na13 tional state of physical security in schools, which shall in14 clude the contents of any information submitted by a 

15 grant recipient under subsection (b). 

16 ‘‘SEC. 2904. TIERS OF VULNERABILITY. 

17 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The COPS Director, in consulta18 tion with school safety experts, including school resource 

19 officers, shall issue guidelines implementing this part. 

20 Such guidelines shall include a 4-tier scale for assessing 

21 security vulnerabilities of schools in independent facility 

22 security risk assessments. In the 4-tier scale developed 

23 under this subsection, tier 4 shall indicate the highest level 

24 of vulnerability. 


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1 ‘‘(b) FACTORS.—The factors to be considered in de2 termining a school facility’s level of vulnerability include— 

3 ‘‘(1) the amount of violence occurring on cam4 pus involving deadly weapons, including knives 

5 longer than 3 inches, firearms, and explosives; 

6 ‘‘(2) the number of trespassers who have gained 

7 access to campus in the last 3 years; 

8 ‘‘(3) the ability of a school to carry out an ac9 tive shooter drill; and 

10 ‘‘(4) the state of existing school security related 

11 infrastructure. 

12 ‘‘SEC. 2905. DEFINITIONS. 

13 ‘‘In this part: 

14 ‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT15 TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional com16 mittees’ means the Committee on the Judiciary and 

17 the Committee on Education and Labor of the 

18 House of Representatives and the Committee on the 

19 Judiciary and the Committee on Health, Education, 

20 Labor, and Pensions of the Senate. 

21 ‘‘(2) HARD SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS.—The 

22 term ‘hard security improvements’ means improve23 ments to the infrastructure of school property perim24 eter, parking lot perimeter, building perimeter, en25 trance and exit points of the school building, video 


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1 monitoring equipment, alert notification equipment, 

2 the interior and perimeter of the classroom, and any 

3 other physical improvements related to camera sys4 tems and related hardware, alarm and notification 

5 technology, and visitor management technologies 

6 deemed eligible for improvement by the COPS Di7 rector. 

8 ‘‘(3) INDEPENDENT FACILITY SECURITY RISK

9 ASSESSMENT.—The term ‘independent facility secu10 rity risk assessment’ means an assessment that— 

11 ‘‘(A) identifies active shooter and related 

12 security vulnerabilities of public schools, consid13 ering security factors, including the strength 

14 and maintenance levels of the property perim15 eter, parking lot perimeter, building perimeter, 

16 and classroom and interior perimeter, and the 

17 presence of a silent security system signal gen18 erated by the manual activation of a device in19 tended to signal a life-threatening or emergency 

20 situation requiring a response from law enforce21 ment; 

22 ‘‘(B) is conducted by— 

23 ‘‘(i) an individual or entity qualified 

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1 rity Protective Security Advisor Program; 

2 or 

3 ‘‘(ii) a State or Federal law enforce4 ment agency; and 

5 ‘‘(C) categorizes the security needs of a fa6 cility using the 4 tiers developed by the COPS 

7 Director pursuant to section 2904. 

8 ‘‘(4) PUBLIC SCHOOL.—The term ‘public 

9 school’ means a public elementary school or a public 

10 secondary school, including an elementary school or 

11 a secondary school that is predominately funded by 

12 an Indian tribal government. 

13 ‘‘SEC. 2906. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

14 ‘‘There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 

15 this part $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 

16 through 2030, of which— 

17 ‘‘(1) $75,000,000 shall be made available for 

18 grants for independent facility security risk assess19 ment; and 

20 ‘‘(2) $125,000,000 shall be made available for 

21 grants for hard security improvements.’’. 

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