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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1217 

To enhance the safety of elementary schools, secondary schools, and 

institutions of higher education. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 25, 2007 

Mrs. BOXER (for herself, Mr. LAUTENBERG, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. SCHUMER, 

Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. DURBIN, and Mr. BROWN) introduced the following 

bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To enhance the safety of elementary schools, secondary 

schools, and institutions of higher education. 

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 2007’’. 


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1 TITLE I—ELEMENTARY AND SEC2 ONDARY EDUCATION SAFETY 

3 ENHANCEMENTS 

4 SEC. 101. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY. 

5 Section 2701 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

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

7 (1) in subsection (b)— 

8 (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘surveil9 lance equipment,’’ after ‘‘detectors,’’; 

10 (B) by striking paragraph (2) and insert11 ing the following: 

12 ‘‘(2) Establishment of hotlines or tiplines for 

13 the reporting of potentially dangerous students and 

14 situations.’’; 

15 (C) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 

16 paragraph (6); and 

17 (D) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 

18 following: 

19 ‘‘(5) Capital improvements to make school fa20 cilities more secure.’’; 

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

22 the following: 

23 ‘‘(1) The Federal share of the costs of a pro24 gram provided by a grant under subsection (a) shall 

25 be 80 percent of the total of such costs. The nonVerDate Aug 31 2005 05:51 Apr 26, 2007 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S1217.IS S1217

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1 Federal share of such costs shall be 20 percent of 

2 such costs.’’; and 

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

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

5 days after the date of enactment of the School Safety En6 hancements Act of 2007, the Director and the Secretary 

7 of Education, or the designee of the Secretary, shall estab8 lish an interagency task force to develop and promulgate 

9 a set of advisory school safety guidelines. The advisory 

10 school safety guidelines shall be published in the Federal 

11 Register by not later than June 1, 2008.’’. 

12 SEC. 102. APPLICATIONS. 

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

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

15 amended to read as follows: 

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

17 chief education officer and the attorney general or 

18 other chief legal officer of the State, unit of local 

19 government, or Indian tribe, demonstrating that 

20 each proposed use of the grant funds will be— 

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

22 safety of one or more schools; 

23 ‘‘(B) consistent with a comprehensive ap24 proach to preventing school violence; and 


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

2 school at which those improvements are to be 

3 made.’’. 

4 SEC. 103. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

5 Section 2705 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

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

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

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

9 fiscal years 2008 and 2009’’. 

10 TITLE II—HIGHER EDUCATION 

11 SECURITY ENHANCEMENT 

12 SEC. 201. REQUIREMENT FOR CAMPUS SAFETY ASSESS13 MENTS. 

14 Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 

15 U.S.C. 1092) is amended by adding at the end the fol16 lowing: 

17 ‘‘(h) CAMPUS SAFETY ASSESSMENT.—Each eligible 

18 institution participating in any program under this title 

19 shall conduct an annual campus safety assessment that 

20 shall be prepared through consultation between the insti21 tution’s staff, including safety and security personnel, and 

22 local law enforcement officials.’’. 


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1 SEC. 202. REQUIREMENT FOR CAMPUS EMERGENCY RE2 SPONSE PLANS. 

3 Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, 

4 as amended in section 201 (20 U.S.C. 1092), is further 

5 amended by adding at the end the following: 

6 ‘‘(i) CAMPUS EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN.—Each 

7 eligible institution participating in any program under this 

8 title shall develop and implement a campus emergency re9 sponse plan to address a comprehensive set of emergency 

10 situations, including the following: 

11 ‘‘(1) Natural disasters. 

12 ‘‘(2) Law enforcement emergencies, such as 

13 bomb threats or active shooter situations. 

14 ‘‘(3) Terrorist threats or attacks.’’. 

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