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110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1097 

To improve the grant program for secure schools under the Omnibus Crime 

Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 15, 2007 

Mr. ROTHMAN (for himself, Mr. HIGGINS, Mr. PATRICK J. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, and Mr. BACA) introduced the following bill; which was referred 

to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To improve the grant program for secure schools under the 

Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. 

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’’. 

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)— 


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1 (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘surveil2 lance equipment,’’ after ‘‘detectors,’’; 

3 (B) by striking paragraph (2) and insert4 ing the following: 

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

6 the reporting of potentially dangerous students and 

7 situations.’’; 

8 (C) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 

9 paragraph (6); and 

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

11 following: 

12 ‘‘(5) Capital improvements to make school fa13 cilities more secure.’’; 

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

15 the following: 

16 ‘‘(1) The Federal share of the costs of a pro17 gram provided by a grant under subsection (a) shall 

18 be 80 percent of the total of such costs. The non19 Federal share of such costs shall be 20 percent of 

20 such costs.’’; and 

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

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

23 days after the date of enactment of the School Safety En24 hancements Act of 2007, the Director and the Secretary 

25 of Education, or the designee of the Secretary, shall estabVerDate Aug 31 2005 20:54 Feb 22, 2007 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1097.IH H1097

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1 lish an interagency task force to develop and promulgate 

2 a set of advisory school safety guidelines. The advisory 

3 school safety guidelines shall be published in the Federal 

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

5 SEC. 3. APPLICATIONS. 

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

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

8 amended to read as follows: 

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

10 chief education officer and the attorney general or 

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

12 government, or Indian tribe, demonstrating that 

13 each proposed use of the grant funds will be— 

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

15 safety of one or more schools; 

16 ‘‘(B) consistent with a comprehensive ap17 proach to preventing school violence; and 

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

19 school at which those improvements are to be 

20 made.’’. 

21 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

22 Section 2705 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

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

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


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

2 fiscal years 2008 and 2009’’. 

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