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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 443 

To authorize the Attorney General to establish a five-year pilot program 

to make grants to local educational agencies for the hiring of school 

resource officers, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 10, 2019 

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

Judiciary, 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 authorize the Attorney General to establish a five-year 

pilot program to make grants to local educational agencies for the hiring of school resource officers, 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 ‘‘Promoting Resource 

5 Officers Together for Exceptionally Critical Targets with 

6 Key Investments in Districts and Schools Act of 2019’’ 

7 or the ‘‘PROTECT KIDS Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR THE HIRING AND TRAINING OF 

2 SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. 

3 (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Attorney General may 

4 establish a five-year pilot program to make grants to local 

5 educational agencies to enter into partnerships with local 

6 law enforcement agencies for the hiring of school resource 

7 officers to operate in and around elementary schools and 

8 secondary schools. 

9 (b) APPLICATION REQUIREMENT.—A grant may be 

10 made under subsection (a) if a local educational agency 

11 submits an application to the Attorney General at such 

12 time, in such manner, and containing such information as 

13 the Attorney General may require. The application shall 

14 include a list of elementary schools or secondary schools 

15 in the jurisdiction of the local educational agency— 

16 (1) that seek to use a school resource officer; 

17 (2) at which no school resource officer is de18 ployed at the time of the application; and 

19 (3) to which a school resource officer is ex20 pected to be deployed using a grant. 

21 (c) PREFERENTIAL CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN

22 APPLICATIONS.—In making grants under subsection (a), 

23 the Attorney general may give preferential consideration, 

24 where feasible, to local educational agencies determined by 

25 the Secretary of Education to have a student population 


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1 exceeding 65,000 in the jurisdiction of such local edu2 cational agency as of January 1, 2019. 

3 (d) AMOUNT OF GRANT.—The amount of a grant 

4 under this section may not exceed $10,000,000 for each 

5 fiscal year. 

6 (e) MATCHING FUNDS.—The Attorney General may 

7 make a grant under subsection (a) only if the applicant 

8 for the grant agrees to match, from funds provided from 

9 State or local government sources, a cash amount equal 

10 to 100 percent of the grant made available by the Attorney 

11 General. 

12 (f) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 

13 (1) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; SECONDARY

14 SCHOOL; LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The terms 

15 ‘‘elementary school’’, ‘‘secondary school’’, and ‘‘local 

16 educational agency’’ have the meanings given those 

17 terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec18 ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 

19 (2) SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER.—The term 

20 ‘‘school resource officer’’ has the meaning given the 

21 term in section 1706 of the Omnibus Crime Control 

22 and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10389). 

23 (g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

24 are authorized to be appropriated $225,000,000 for the 

25 first fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment 


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1 of this Act, and each of the next four fiscal years there2 after. 

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