I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 443 
To authorize the Attorney General to establish a five-year pilot program 
to make grants to local educational agencies for the hiring of school 
resource officers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 10, 2019 
Mr. BILIRAKIS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and Labor, 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 jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Attorney General to establish a five-year 
pilot program to make grants to local educational agen-
cies for the hiring of school resource officers, 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 ‘‘Promoting Resource 
Officers Together for Exceptionally Critical Targets with 
Key Investments in Districts and Schools Act of 2019’’ 
or the ‘‘PROTECT KIDS Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR THE HIRING AND TRAINING OF 
SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Attorney General may 
establish a five-year pilot program to make grants to local 
educational agencies to enter into partnerships with local 
law enforcement agencies for the hiring of school resource 
officers to operate in and around elementary schools and 
secondary schools. 
(b) APPLICATION REQUIREMENT.—A grant may be 
made under subsection (a) if a local educational agency 
submits an application to the Attorney General at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such information as 
the Attorney General may require. The application shall 
include a list of elementary schools or secondary schools 
in the jurisdiction of the local educational agency— 
(1) that seek to use a school resource officer; 
(2) at which no school resource officer is de-
ployed at the time of the application; and 
(3) to which a school resource officer is ex-
pected to be deployed using a grant. 
(c) PREFERENTIAL CONSIDERATION
OF CERTAIN 
APPLICATIONS.—In making grants under subsection (a), 
the Attorney general may give preferential consideration, 
where feasible, to local educational agencies determined by 
the Secretary of Education to have a student population 
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exceeding 65,000 in the jurisdiction of such local edu-
cational agency as of January 1, 2019. 
(d) AMOUNT OF GRANT.—The amount of a grant 
under this section may not exceed $10,000,000 for each 
fiscal year. 
(e) MATCHING FUNDS.—The Attorney General may 
make a grant under subsection (a) only if the applicant 
for the grant agrees to match, from funds provided from 
State or local government sources, a cash amount equal 
to 100 percent of the grant made available by the Attorney 
General. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) 
ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL; 
SECONDARY 
SCHOOL; LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The terms 
‘‘elementary school’’, ‘‘secondary school’’, and ‘‘local 
educational agency’’ have the meanings given those 
terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary 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 1706 of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10389). 
(g) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated $225,000,000 for the 
first fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment 
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of this Act, and each of the next four fiscal years there-
after. 
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