I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 8055 
To require State educational agencies to hire and train school resource 
officers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 14, 2022 
Mr. GARCIA of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Commit-
tees on Oversight and Reform, Financial Services, Transportation and In-
frastructure, and Foreign Affairs, 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 require State educational agencies to hire and train 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 ‘‘Strengthening School 
Security for Students Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. HIRING AND TRAINING OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OF-
FICERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—No funds shall be made available 
under any applicable program to any State educational 
agency, unless such agency ensures each elementary school 
and secondary school under the jurisdiction of such agency 
hires two full time school resource officers for every 500 
students in attendance at such school who are licensed to 
carry a firearm and are trained to prevent student violence 
to others and self. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) APPLICABLE PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘appli-
cable program’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 400(c) of the General Education Provisions 
Act (20 U.S.C. 1221). 
(2) ESEA TERMS.—The terms ‘‘elementary 
school’’, ‘‘secondary school’’, and ‘‘State educational 
agency’’ have the meanings given such terms in sec-
tion 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(3) SCHOOL
RESOURCE
OFFICER.—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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(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $28,000,000,000 for each 
of fiscal years 2023 through 2027. 
SEC. 3. RESCISSION OF CERTAIN AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN 
ACT OF 2021 FUNDS. 
The total unobligated balance of funds available 
under the following accounts and programs established by 
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117– 
2; in this section referred to as ‘‘ARPA’’) are hereby re-
scinded: 
(1) Fund for State, territories, tribal, and local 
governments under section 602 or 603 of the Social 
Security Act, as added by section 9901 of ARPA. 
(2) Emergency rental assistance under section 
3201 of ARPA. 
(3) State small business credit initiative under 
the State Small Business Credit Initiative Act of 
2010, as amended by section 3301 of ARPA. 
(4) Federal Transit Administration grants 
under section 3401 ARPA. 
(5) Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund under 
section 604 of the Social Security Act, as added by 
section 9901 of ARPA. 
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(6) Global response funds under section 10003 
of ARPA. 
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