I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5427 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
give a public safety and community policing grant preference for appli-
cants prioritizing the hiring of school resource officers, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 5, 2018 
Mr. MARINO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 to give a public safety and community 
policing grant preference for applicants prioritizing 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 ‘‘School and Student 
Safety Act of 2018’’. 
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SEC. 2. PUBLIC SAFETY AND COMMUNITY POLICING GRANT 
PREFERENCE FOR APPLICANTS PRIORITIZ-
ING THE HIRING OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OF-
FICERS. 
(a) PREFERENCE.—Section 1701(c) of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 
10381(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking ‘‘or’’ after 
the semicolon; 
(2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(4) from an applicant that prioritizes hiring 
new, additional career law enforcement officers for 
deployment as school resource officers and individ-
uals for such positions who— 
‘‘(A) are— 
‘‘(i) veterans (as defined in section 
101 of title 38, United States Code); or 
‘‘(ii) retired law enforcement officers 
who— 
‘‘(I) separated from service in 
good standing from service with a 
public agency as a career law enforce-
ment officer; and 
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‘‘(II) before such separation, 
served as a career law enforcement of-
ficer for an aggregate of 10 years or 
more; and 
‘‘(B) have not been officially found to be 
unqualified for a position as a career law en-
forcement officer for reasons relating to mental 
health by a medical professional in a medical 
profession determined by the Attorney General 
to be qualified to make such determinations.’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
1001(a)(11) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10261(a)(11)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘, and such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out part Q for fiscal year 2019 
and each fiscal year thereafter.’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B), in the first sentence 
by striking the period at the end and inserting the 
following: ‘‘, and 25 percent shall be made available 
for grants to State and local law enforcement agen-
cies 
for 
the 
purposes 
described 
in 
section 
1701(b)(12).’’. 
Æ 
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