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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6063 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
enhance the safety of elementary schools and secondary schools. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 30, 2010 
Mr. ROTHMAN of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 to enhance the safety of elementary schools 
and secondary schools. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘School Safety En-
hancements Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY. 
Section 2701 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
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(i) by striking ‘‘Placement’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Installation’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘surveillance equip-
ment,’’ after ‘‘detectors,’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 
paragraph (6); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 
following: 
‘‘(5) Establishment of hotlines or tiplines for 
the reporting of potentially dangerous students or 
situations.’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (d)(1) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) The Federal share of the costs of a pro-
gram provided by a grant under subsection (a) shall 
be not more than 75 percent of the total of such 
costs.’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(g) INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE.—Not later than 60 
days after the date of enactment of the School Safety En-
hancements Act of 2010, the Director and the Secretary 
of Education, or the designee of the Secretary, shall estab-
lish an interagency task force to develop and promulgate 
a set of advisory school safety guidelines. The advisory 
school safety guidelines shall be published in the Federal 
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Register by not later than one year after such date of en-
actment. In developing the final advisory school safety 
guidelines, the interagency task force shall consult with 
stakeholders and interested parties, including parents, 
teachers, and relevant State and local agencies.’’. 
SEC. 3. APPLICATIONS. 
Section 2702(a)(2) of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797b(a)(2)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) be accompanied by a report, signed by the 
chief education officer and the attorney general or 
other chief law enforcement executive of the State, 
unit of local government, or Indian tribe, certifying 
that each proposed use of the grant funds will be— 
‘‘(A) an effective means for improving the 
safety of one or more schools; 
‘‘(B) consistent with a comprehensive ap-
proach to preventing school violence; and 
‘‘(C) individualized to the needs of each 
school at which those improvements are to be 
made.’’. 
SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
Section 2703 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797c) is amended by 
striking ‘‘and the activities for which those funds were 
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used’’ and inserting ‘‘and a detailed itemization of how 
those funds were utilized’’. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 2705 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is amended by 
striking ‘‘$30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 
through 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$50,000,000 for each of the 
fiscal years 2011 through 2014’’. 
Æ 
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