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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4661 
To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to any entity for the construction 
of a Federal facility unless the entity has in effect a policy of conducting 
a criminal background check on an employee before allowing the employee 
to participate in the construction of a public elementary school or sec-
ondary school, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 31, 2006 
Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to any entity 
for the construction of a Federal facility unless the entity 
has in effect a policy of conducting a criminal back-
ground check on an employee before allowing the em-
ployee to participate in the construction of a public ele-
mentary school or secondary school, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Background Check for 
Student Safety Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The security of the Nation’s schools must 
be of the highest priority. 
(2) On September 1, 2004, Chechen terrorists 
seized a school in Beslan, Russia, and held more 
than 1,000 students, teachers, administrators, and 
parents hostage for 3 days before killing 330 indi-
viduals, including more than half of the children in 
the school. 
(3) Reports have indicated that the Chechen 
terrorists may have planted weapons in the floor-
boards of the school during a construction project 
that took place over the summer of 2004. 
(4) Workers at school construction sites have 
unfettered access to the school and blueprints detail-
ing its layout. 
(5) Such complete familiarity with and access 
to the school allows an individual to gather informa-
tion and plant weaponry that could be used in future 
attacks, as occurred in Beslan.
SEC. 2. CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON INDIVIDUALS 
PARTICIPATING IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 
PUBLIC 
ELEMENTARY 
OR 
SECONDARY 
SCHOOL. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—No Federal funds may be pro-
vided to any entity for the construction of a Federal facil-
ity unless the entity has in effect a policy of conducting 
a criminal background check on an employee before allow-
ing the employee— 
(1) to participate in the construction of a public 
elementary school or secondary school; or 
(2) to have access to blueprints or other mate-
rials with details on such construction. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this Act: 
(1) The terms ‘‘elementary school’’ and ‘‘sec-
ondary school’’ have the meanings given to those 
terms in section 9101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(2) The term ‘‘employee’’ includes any employee 
of the entity involved or of a contractor or subsidiary 
of the entity. 
(3) The term ‘‘Federal facility’’ includes any 
Federal building or other structure. 
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