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118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9754 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require 
maintenance of State funds for school resource officers in elementary 
schools and secondary schools, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024 
Mr. BERGMAN (for himself, Mr. HUIZENGA, and Mrs. MCCLAIN) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
the Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965 to require maintenance of State funds for school 
resource officers in elementary schools and secondary 
schools, 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 ‘‘School Resource Offi-
cer Funding Protection Act of 2024’’ or the ‘‘SRO Fund-
ing Protection Act of 2024’’. 
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SEC. 2. SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FUNDING. 
Subpart 2 of part F of title VIII of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7901 
et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 8549D. SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FUNDING MAIN-
TENANCE. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning with the first fiscal 
year beginning after the date of the enactment of this sec-
tion, a State educational agency may receive the total 
amount of funds that the agency is eligible to receive 
under a program under this Act for any fiscal year only 
if the agency maintains funding for school resource officer 
programs in elementary schools and secondary schools 
served by the agency at an amount that is not less than 
the amount expended by the agency for such school re-
source officer programs in the most recent fiscal year pre-
ceding such fiscal year in which the agency, as applica-
ble— 
‘‘(1) did not receive a waiver under subsection 
(c); or 
‘‘(2) complied with the requirements of this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(b) REPORT.—A State educational agency shall, on 
an annual basis, submit to the Secretary a certification 
of compliance with the requirement under subsection (a) 
in such form, at such time, and containing such informa-
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tion as the Secretary may require, including a public re-
port detailing, for the fiscal year in which the report is 
submitted and each of the 5 preceding fiscal years— 
‘‘(1) the amount of State funding for school re-
source officer programs in elementary schools and 
secondary schools served by the agency; and 
‘‘(2) the number of school resource officers 
working in such elementary schools and secondary 
schools pursuant to such programs. 
‘‘(c) WAIVER.—The Secretary may waive the require-
ment under subsection (a) for a State educational agency 
that submits to the Secretary a waiver request dem-
onstrating that extraordinary financial circumstances of 
the State resulted in a reduction in the amount of State 
funding for school resource officer programs in elementary 
schools and secondary schools served by the agency. 
‘‘(d) NONCOMPLIANCE.—In the case of a State edu-
cational agency that fails to meet the requirement under 
subsection (a) for a fiscal year and does not receive a waiv-
er under subsection (c), the Secretary shall, for the fol-
lowing fiscal year, reduce the total amount of funds that 
the agency is eligible to receive under programs under this 
Act in such following fiscal year by an amount in propor-
tion to— 
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‘‘(1) the amount of State funding for school re-
source officer programs in elementary schools and 
secondary schools served by the agency for the fiscal 
year in which the agency fails to meet such require-
ment; compared to 
‘‘(2) the amount of such funding expended by 
the agency in the most recent fiscal year preceding 
such fiscal year in which the agency, as applicable— 
‘‘(A) did not receive a waiver under sub-
section (c); or 
‘‘(B) complied with the requirements of 
this section. 
‘‘(e) SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER DEFINED.—For 
purposes of this section, the term ‘school resource officer’ 
has the meaning given such term in section 1709 of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10389).’’. 
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