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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2761
To provide grants to enable each public secondary school to hire a director
of school safety, discipline, and student assistance to develop or improve
a safety plan.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 5, 1999
Mr. ISAKSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and the Workforce
A BILL
To provide grants to enable each public secondary school
to hire a director of school safety, discipline, and student
assistance to develop or improve a safety plan.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this Act to allow each public sec-
ondary school to hire a director of school safety, discipline,
and student assistance to develop or improve a safety plan.
SEC. 2. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
The Secretary is authorized to provide grants on a
competitive basis to specially designated agencies and
State educational agencies to enable each public secondary
school to employ a director to develop or improve a school
safety plan.
SEC. 3. GRANT AWARD.
(a) STATE APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive
a grant award under this Act, a State educational agency
shall submit an application to the Secretary at such time,
in such form, and containing such information as the Sec-
retary may require.
(b) LOCAL APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive
a subgrant under this Act, a local educational agency,
other than a specially designated agency, shall submit an
application to the State educational agency in such form
and containing or accompanied by such information as the
State educational agency shall require.
(c) SPECIALLY
DESIGNATED
AGENCY
APPLICA-
TION.—If a State educational agency does not apply for
a grant award under this Act in a fiscal year, any specially
designated agency in such State that desires to receive a
grant under this Act in such fiscal year shall apply to the
Secretary at such time, in such form, and containing such
information as the Secretary may require.
(d) CONTENTS.—An application submitted under
subsections (a), (b), or (c) shall include assurances that—
(1) funds provided under this Act shall be used
only to hire a director to develop or improve a public
secondary school safety plan and implement security
measures approved in the school safety plan;
(2) funds provided under this Act shall supple-
ment, not supplant, State and local funds;
(3) the director shall have the authority—
(A) to discipline (in accordance with the
school safety plan) any student whose actions
or words threaten the safety of any student,
teacher, employee, or administrator of the
school; and
(B) refer any student to the appropriate
law enforcement authority, family and children
services, or any other agency or organization
the Director considers appropriate to meet the
requirements of the school safety plan;
(C) the applicant that receives funds under this
Act shall use not more than 1.5 percent of the funds
to pay administrative expenses;
(4) the applicant shall provide parents, stu-
dents, faculty, school administrators, and any other
individuals or groups who the director requests, an
opportunity to present their views and make rec-
ommendations regarding the safety plan; and
(5) in the case of a State educational agency,
such agency shall evaluate the effectiveness of each
public secondary school safety plan on an annual
basis.
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Act:
(1) DIRECTOR.—The term ‘‘director’’ means
the individual or entity hired as director of school
safety, discipline, and student assistance for a public
secondary school, employed directly or through a
contract with a school board, to develop or improve
the school safety plan. If the individual employed as
director is a school tenured employee when hired,
the director shall waive tenure.
(2) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term
‘‘local educational agency’’ has the same meaning
given such term in section 14101 of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
8801).
(3) OUTLYING
AREA.—The term ‘‘outlying
area’’ means the United States Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of the Mar-
shall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia,
and the Republic of Palau.
(4) SECONDARY
SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘sec-
ondary school’’ has the same meaning given such
term in section 14101 of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965.
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of Education.
(6) SPECIALLY
DESIGNATED
AGENCY.—The
term ‘‘specially designated agency’’ means a local
educational agency, located in a State that did not
receive a grant under this Act in a fiscal year, that
applies directly to the Secretary for a grant in ac-
cordance with section (3)(a)(3).
(7) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of
the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the Com-
monwealth of Puerto Rico, and each outlying area.
SEC. 5. GEPA AMENDMENT.
Section 444(b)(1) of the General Education Provi-
sions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232g) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (I), by striking ‘‘and’’ after
the semicolon;
(2) in subparagraph (J), by striking the period
and inserting ‘‘and;’’; and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (J), the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(K) the individual or entity hired, either di-
rectly or through a contract by a school board, as
a director of school safety, discipline, and student
assistance to develop and implement a school safety
plan.’’.
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