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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8037 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide eligibility to elemen-
tary and secondary schools for certain security grants for target hard-
ening and other security enhancements to protect against terrorist at-
tacks, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 13, 2022 
Mr. ISSA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Education 
and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide 
eligibility to elementary and secondary schools for certain 
security grants for target hardening and other security 
enhancements to protect against terrorist attacks, and 
for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Nonprofit and School 
Security Grant Program Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
SCHOOLS 
FOR 
CERTAIN 
DHS 
SECURITY 
GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2009 of the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 609a) is amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by inserting ‘‘AND 
SCHOOL’’ after ‘‘NONPROFIT’’; 
(2) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘and to ele-
mentary schools, secondary schools, private schools, 
and religious schools’’ before ‘‘for target hardening’’; 
(3) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ‘‘, includ-
ing magnetometers’’ before the period; 
(4) in subsection (f)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘$75 mil-
lion for each of fiscal years 2020 through 
2024’’ and inserting ‘‘$500,300,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2023 through 2027’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘$50 million’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$125,075,000’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘and’’ after the 
semicolon; 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘$25 million’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$125,075,000’’; and 
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(II) by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) $250,150,000 is authorized for ele-
mentary schools, secondary schools, private 
schools, and religious schools, to be derived ini-
tially from the unobligated balances of all 
amounts made available to such schools to pre-
vent, 
prepare 
for, 
or 
respond 
to 
the 
coronavirus.’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—In this section, the terms ‘ele-
mentary school’ and ‘secondary school’ have the meanings 
given such terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 
amended by amending the item relating to section 2009 
to read as follows: 
‘‘Sec. 2009. Nonprofit and school security grant program.’’. 
Æ 
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