School Resource Officer Assessment Act of 2023

Subjects: Education

Summary:  <p><strong>School Resource Officer Assessment Act of </strong><b>2023</b></p> <p>This bill requires the Department of Justice and the Department of Education to conduct and submit to Congress a survey of the&nbsp;assignment of&nbsp;school resource officers at public elementary&nbsp;and secondary schools.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2649 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2649

   To require the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to 
   conduct a survey of all public schools to determine the number of 
               school resource officers at such schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2023

   Mr. Higgins of Louisiana introduced the following bill; which was 
   referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to 
   conduct a survey of all public schools to determine the number of 
               school resource officers at such schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``School Resource Officer Assessment 
Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY SURVEY OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Attorney General and the Secretary of Education shall jointly conduct 
and submit to Congress a survey of the assignment of school resource 
officers at public elementary schools and secondary schools, which 
shall include a determination of whether each such school--
            (1) on or after January 1, 2022, has been assigned a school 
        resource officer; and
            (2) in the case of a school that has been assigned such an 
        officer--
                    (A) the number of such assignments; and
                    (B) whether each such assignment is on a full-time 
                or part-time basis.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``elementary school'' and 
        ``secondary school'' have the meanings given the terms in 
        section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            (2) School resource officer.--The term ``school resource 
        officer'' has the meaning given the term in section 1709(4) of 
        the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
        U.S.C. 10389(4)).
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