(2) support local educational agencies that 
choose to terminate their contracts with local law en-
forcement agencies or, where applicable, dissolve or 
disband district-based police departments, and invest 
resources in personnel and services that create safe 
and inclusive schools for all students based on com-
munity engagement and deliberative consultation. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘‘elementary 
school’’, ‘‘evidence-based’’, ‘‘local educational agen-
cy’’, ‘‘parent’’, ‘‘professional development’’, ‘‘school 
leader’’, ‘‘secondary school’’, ‘‘Secretary’’, and ‘‘spe-
cialized instructional support personnel’’ have the 
meaning given those terms in section 8101 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(2) COVERED
PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘covered 
program’’ means— 
(A) all the operations of an elementary 
school, a secondary school, or a local edu-
cational agency; or 
(B) a program that serves children who re-
ceive services for which financial assistance is 
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provided in accordance with the Head Start Act 
(42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.). 
(3) CREDIBLE MESSENGER.—The term ‘‘cred-
ible messenger’’ means any individual who serves as 
a mentor, is from the same communities in which 
the students and families they serve live, and whose 
lived experiences serve as a credential in their work 
to provide guidance, empowerment, support, and en-
couragement to students and their families with 
whom the credible messenger has shared or similar 
experiences. Shared experiences include being a per-
son of color, being directly impacted or having in-
volvement in the legal system, having involvement in 
the child welfare system, being directly impacted by 
exclusionary school discipline and policing in schools, 
having experienced housing instability, having a dis-
ability, or identifying as LGBTQI+. 
(4) POSITIVE
BEHAVIORAL
INTERVENTIONS 
AND
SUPPORTS.—The term ‘‘positive behavioral 
interventions and supports’’ means— 
(A) a schoolwide, systematic approach that 
embeds evidence-based practices and data-driv-
en decision making to improve school climate 
and culture in order to achieve improved aca-
demic and social outcomes and increase learn-
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ing for all students (including students with the 
most complex and intensive behavioral needs); 
and 
(B) encompasses a range of systemic and 
individualized positive strategies to teach and 
reinforce school-expected behaviors, while dis-
couraging and diminishing undesirable behav-
iors. 
(5) COVERED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.— 
The term ‘‘covered law enforcement officer’’— 
(A) means any person who— 
(i) is a State, Tribal, or local law en-
forcement officer (as defined in section 
1204 of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 
10284)); and 
(ii) is assigned by the employing law 
enforcement agency to a covered program, 
who is contracting with a covered program, 
or who is employed by a covered program; 
and 
(B) includes an individual referred to as a 
‘‘school resource officer’’ if that individual 
meets the definition in subparagraph (A). 
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(6) TRAUMA-INFORMED SERVICES.—The term 
‘‘trauma-informed services’’ means a service delivery 
approach that— 
(A) recognizes and responds to the impacts 
of trauma with evidence-based supports and 
intervention; 
(B) emphasizes physical, psychological, and 
emotional safety for both providers of services 
and survivors of trauma; and 
(C) creates opportunities for survivors of 
trauma to rebuild a sense of healing and em-
powerment. 
SEC. 5. PROHIBITION OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR POLICE IN 
SCHOOLS. 
(a) 
FEDERAL
FUNDS
PROHIBITION.—Notwith-
standing the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.), including subpart 1 
of part E of title I of that Act (34 U.S.C. 10151 et seq.) 
(relating to the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assist-
ance Grant Program) and part Q of title I of that Act 
(34 U.S.C. 13081 et seq.) (relating to the ‘‘Cops on the 
Beat’’ grant program), or any other provision of law, no 
Federal funds may be appropriated or used for hiring, 
maintaining, or training covered law enforcement officers 
in any capacity. 
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(b) COPS GRANT PROGRAM.—Section 1701 of title 
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking paragraph (12); 
(B) by redesignating paragraphs (13) 
through (23) as paragraphs (12) through (22), 
respectively; and 
(C) in paragraph (21), as so redesignated, 
by striking ‘‘through (21)’’ and inserting 
‘‘through (20)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(n) PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR COVERED 
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.—A recipient of a grant 
under this part may not use the grant funds for covered 
law enforcement officers (as defined in section 4 of the 
Counseling Not Criminalization in Schools Act).’’. 
SEC. 6. SUPPORTING LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES IN 
TRANSITIONING 
AWAY 
FROM 
POLICE 
IN 
SCHOOLS. 
(a) GRANT PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—The Secretary 
of Education shall award grants, on a competitive and roll-
ing basis, to local educational agencies to enable those 
local educational agencies— 
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