I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3665 
To establish a grant program to encourage schools to conduct independent 
facility security risk assessments and make hard security improvements, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2019 
Mr. WILLIAMS (for himself and Mr. DEUTCH) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To establish a grant program to encourage schools to conduct 
independent facility security risk assessments and make 
hard security improvements, 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 Violence Pre-
vention and Mitigation Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. SCHOOL SECURITY GRANT. 
The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 is amended by inserting after part BB the following: 
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‘‘PART CC—RISK ASSESSMENT AND HARD 
SECURITY GRANT 
‘‘SEC. 2901. INDEPENDENT FACILITY SECURITY RISK AS-
SESSMENTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this part, the Director 
of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (re-
ferred to in this part as the ‘COPS Director’) shall award 
grants to public schools to have independent facility secu-
rity risk assessments performed. 
‘‘(b) APPLICATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under this section, a public school shall submit 
to the COPS Director an application at such time, 
in such manner, and containing such information as 
the COPS Director may require, including— 
‘‘(A) the size of the school; 
‘‘(B) a comprehensive report on the finan-
cial state of the school, including any Federal, 
State, or local funds used in the school’s budg-
et; and 
‘‘(C) a certification to the Attorney Gen-
eral that the school is unable to cover the cost 
of an independent facility security risk assess-
ment without the grant awarded under this sec-
tion. 
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‘‘(2) 
PRIORITY.—The 
COPS 
Director, 
in 
awarding a grant under this section, shall give pri-
ority to applications of public schools that have expe-
rienced an event in which an individual inflicts dead-
ly harm or attempts to inflict deadly harm against 
multiple individuals. 
‘‘(c) INELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A public school shall be in-
eligible to receive a grant under this section if it— 
‘‘(A) received a grant under this section or 
section 2902 in the previous 5 fiscal years; or 
‘‘(B) receives a grant under section 2902 
in the same fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph 
(1), in the case that a grant recipient experiences an 
event in which an individual inflicts deadly harm or 
attempts to inflict deadly harm against multiple in-
dividuals, such grant recipient shall be eligible to re-
ceive an additional grant under this section or sec-
tion 2902 in the fiscal year after the date of the 
event. 
‘‘SEC. 2902. HARD SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this part, the COPS 
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Director shall award grants to public schools for the pur-
pose of making hard security improvements to schools. 
‘‘(b) APPLICATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant under this section, a public school shall submit 
to the COPS Director an application at such time, 
in such manner, and containing such information as 
the COPS Director may require, which application 
shall include— 
‘‘(A) the size of the school; 
‘‘(B) a comprehensive report on the finan-
cial state of the school, including any Federal, 
State, or local funds used in the school’s budg-
et; 
‘‘(C) a comprehensive description of pre-
vious improvements made to the school meant 
to address school security related vulnerabili-
ties; 
‘‘(D) the specific products and services 
that will be purchased with the grant funds and 
an estimate of such costs and services; and 
‘‘(E) the results of the school’s most recent 
independent facility security risk assessment. 
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‘‘(2) 
PRIORITY.—The 
COPS 
Director, 
in 
awarding a grant under this section, shall give pri-
ority to applications of schools that— 
‘‘(A) have experienced an event in which 
an individual inflicts deadly harm or attempts 
to inflict deadly harm against multiple individ-
uals; or 
‘‘(B) have a higher tier of vulnerability 
score according to a school’s most recent inde-
pendent facility security risk assessment. 
‘‘(c) INELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—A public school shall be in-
eligible to receive a grant under this section if— 
‘‘(A) a public school received a grant under 
this section in the previous 5 fiscal years; or 
‘‘(B) a public school receives a grant under 
section 2901 in the same fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—Notwithstanding paragraph 
(1), in the case that a grant recipient experiences an 
event in which an individual inflicts deadly harm or 
attempts to inflict deadly harm against multiple in-
dividuals, such grant recipient shall be eligible to re-
ceive an additional grant under this section or sec-
tion 2901 in any fiscal year after the date on which 
the event occurred. 
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‘‘(d) MATCHING FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Federal share of a 
grant received under this part may not exceed 50 
percent of the hard security improvement costs. 
‘‘(2) WAIVER.—The COPS Director may waive 
in whole or in part, the matching requirement under 
paragraph (1) in the case that the recipient has a 
financial need for such waiver. 
‘‘(e) GRANT CONDITIONS.—A recipient of a grant 
under this section shall— 
‘‘(1) use the grant to make hard security im-
provements identified as necessary by the most re-
cent independent facility security risk assessment; 
‘‘(2) in the case that a panic alarm is not in-
stalled or operable according to the independent fa-
cility risk assessment, use the grant for the installa-
tion of at least 1 panic alarm for use in a school se-
curity emergency, including a non-fire evacuation, 
lockdown, or active shooter situation, which alarm— 
‘‘(A) shall be directly linked to the local 
law enforcement agency that is closest in prox-
imity to the grant recipient; 
‘‘(B) shall immediately transmit a signal 
or message to such law enforcement agency 
upon activation; and 
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‘‘(C) shall not be audible within the public 
school building; 
‘‘(3) before entering into a contract with a ven-
dor, obtain written confirmation from the law en-
forcement agency or entity that conducted the inde-
pendent facility security risk assessment that the im-
provement will mitigate a vulnerability identified in 
the independent facility security risk assessment; 
and 
‘‘(4) ensure that hard security improvements 
comply with local building code requirements and 
standards. 
‘‘SEC. 2903. INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; REPORTS. 
‘‘(a) INFORMATION DISSEMINATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The COPS Director shall 
disseminate to each local educational agency in the 
United States information about the availability of 
grants under sections 2901 and 2902. 
‘‘(2) EVENT NOTICE.—Not later than 30 days 
after an event in which an individual inflicts deadly 
harm or attempts to inflict deadly harm against 
multiple individuals occurs in a public school, the 
Director shall contact verbally the head of such pub-
lic school to provide notice of priority eligibility for 
grants under sections 2901 and 2902 and to offer 
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technical assistance in navigating the application 
process. 
‘‘(b) GRANT RECIPIENT REPORT.—Not later than 1 
year after receiving a grant under section 2901 or 2902, 
the grant recipient shall submit to the COPS Director a 
copy of the results of each independent facility security 
risk assessment and a list of each hard improvement for 
which the grant funds were used by the recipient. 
‘‘(c) COPS DIRECTOR REPORT.—Not later than 2 
years after the date of enactment of this part, and annu-
ally thereafter, the COPS Director shall submit to the ap-
propriate congressional committees a report on the na-
tional state of physical security in schools, which shall in-
clude the contents of any information submitted by a 
grant recipient under subsection (b). 
‘‘SEC. 2904. TIERS OF VULNERABILITY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The COPS Director, in consulta-
tion with school safety experts, including school resource 
officers, shall issue guidelines implementing this part. 
Such guidelines shall include a 4-tier scale for assessing 
security vulnerabilities of schools in independent facility 
security risk assessments. In the 4-tier scale developed 
under this subsection, tier 4 shall indicate the highest level 
of vulnerability. 
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‘‘(b) FACTORS.—The factors to be considered in de-
termining a school facility’s level of vulnerability include— 
‘‘(1) the amount of violence occurring on cam-
pus involving deadly weapons, including knives 
longer than 3 inches, firearms, and explosives; 
‘‘(2) the number of trespassers who have gained 
access to campus in the last 3 years; 
‘‘(3) the ability of a school to carry out an ac-
tive shooter drill; and 
‘‘(4) the state of existing school security related 
infrastructure. 
‘‘SEC. 2905. DEFINITIONS. 
‘‘In this part: 
‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’ means the Committee on the Judiciary and 
the Committee on Education and Labor of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on the 
Judiciary and the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions of the Senate. 
‘‘(2) HARD
SECURITY
IMPROVEMENTS.—The 
term ‘hard security improvements’ means improve-
ments to the infrastructure of school property perim-
eter, parking lot perimeter, building perimeter, en-
trance and exit points of the school building, video 
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monitoring equipment, alert notification equipment, 
the interior and perimeter of the classroom, and any 
other physical improvements related to camera sys-
tems and related hardware, alarm and notification 
technology, and visitor management technologies 
deemed eligible for improvement by the COPS Di-
rector. 
‘‘(3) INDEPENDENT FACILITY SECURITY RISK 
ASSESSMENT.—The term ‘independent facility secu-
rity risk assessment’ means an assessment that— 
‘‘(A) identifies active shooter and related 
security vulnerabilities of public schools, consid-
ering security factors, including the strength 
and maintenance levels of the property perim-
eter, parking lot perimeter, building perimeter, 
and classroom and interior perimeter, and the 
presence of a silent security system signal gen-
erated by the manual activation of a device in-
tended to signal a life-threatening or emergency 
situation requiring a response from law enforce-
ment; 
‘‘(B) is conducted by— 
‘‘(i) an individual or entity qualified 
under the Department of Homeland Secu-
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rity Protective Security Advisor Program; 
or 
‘‘(ii) a State or Federal law enforce-
ment agency; and 
‘‘(C) categorizes the security needs of a fa-
cility using the 4 tiers developed by the COPS 
Director pursuant to section 2904. 
‘‘(4) 
PUBLIC
SCHOOL.—The 
term 
‘public 
school’ means a public elementary school or a public 
secondary school, including an elementary school or 
a secondary school that is predominately funded by 
an Indian tribal government. 
‘‘SEC. 2906. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this part $200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 
through 2030, of which— 
‘‘(1) $75,000,000 shall be made available for 
grants for independent facility security risk assess-
ment; and 
‘‘(2) $125,000,000 shall be made available for 
grants for hard security improvements.’’. 
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