(1) to replace covered law enforcement officers 
in elementary and secondary schools with personnel 
and services that support mental health and trauma- 
informed services; and 
(2) to reform school safety and disciplinary 
policies so they reflect evidence-based practices that 
do not rely on the criminal justice system and pro-
vide the necessary staff training and support to im-
plement such policies. 
(b) APPLICATION.—A local educational agency desir-
ing a grant under this section shall submit an application 
to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may require, in-
cluding an assurance that— 
(1) the local educational agency will not have 
covered law enforcement officers stationed on school 
campuses, including by terminating any existing con-
tract with local law enforcement or, where applica-
ble, dissolving school district-based police depart-
ments, at least 30 days prior to the entity receiving 
funds under this section; and 
(2) the local educational agency will not estab-
lish any new contract with law enforcement or create 
its own school police department for the duration of 
the grant. 
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(c) PRIORITY.—In awarding grants under this sec-
tion, the Secretary shall give priority to— 
(1) local educational agencies that terminated 
their contract with local law enforcement or dis-
solved their school district-based police department 
prior to submitting an application and provide assur-
ances that the local educational agency will not cre-
ate or restart a contract with State or local law en-
forcement, create or reinstate a school district police 
department, or create or restart a program of other 
law enforcement or armed school personnel during 
the duration of the grant; 
(2) local educational agencies with a larger 
share of students who are economically disadvan-
taged, in the event that funds are insufficient to 
award grants to all eligible applicants; and 
(3) local educational agencies that— 
(A) identify the uses of funds in subsection 
(d) based on meaningful community engage-
ment; and 
(B) establish ongoing stakeholder over-
sight, guidance, and coordination of the pro-
posed activities or policies with a broad group 
of stakeholders, including any groups of stu-
dents, as well as their families, who have been 
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disproportionately arrested, suspended, or ex-
pelled, to ensure proposed activities and policies 
mitigate disparities in the use of exclusionary 
discipline and promote a positive school culture. 
(d) USES OF FUNDS.— 
(1) REQUIRED USE.—A local educational agen-
cy receiving funds under this section shall use such 
grant funds to hire, maintain, or train school coun-
selors, school psychologists, nurses, social workers, 
credible messengers, community health workers and 
trauma-informed personnel, dedicated staff specifi-
cally trained in de-escalation and violence interrup-
tion practices, staff trained in anti-bias practices, 
doctoral level specialists in behavior planning and 
intervention, or other specialists or individuals with 
expertise in school climate and behavior. 
(2) PERMITTED USES.—In addition to the re-
quired use described in paragraph (1), a local edu-
cational agency receiving funds under this section 
may also use grant funds to carry out 1 or more of 
the following: 
(A) Implementing schoolwide positive be-
havioral interventions and supports, restorative 
justice programs and interventions, mediators, 
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social and emotional learning programs, or 
other evidence-based trauma-informed services. 
(B) Providing ongoing professional devel-
opment to teachers, teacher assistants, school 
leaders, counselors, specialized instructional 
support personnel, credible messengers, and 
mental health professionals that— 
(i) fosters safe, inclusive, and stable 
learning environments that support the so-
cial, emotional, mental, and academic well- 
being of students and prevent and mitigate 
the effects of trauma, including through 
social and emotional learning; 
(ii) improves school capacity to iden-
tify, refer, and provide services to students 
in need of trauma support services; 
(iii) reflects the best practices for 
trauma-informed identification, referral, 
and support developed by the Interagency 
Task Force on Trauma-Informed Care; 
(iv) reduces the number of students 
with disabilities experiencing school dis-
cipline for their disability-related behavior 
through specific training on the identifica-
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tion, development, and implementation of 
Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs); and 
(v) reduces the number of Black, 
Latino, Native American, and LGBTQI+ 
students who are subjected to punitive dis-
cipline practices rather than trauma-in-
formed services and supports. 
(e) PROHIBITION.—No portion of any grant funds 
awarded under this section may be used for— 
(1) the development, establishment, implemen-
tation, or enforcement of punitive school discipline 
policies, including the commission, contracting of, or 
agreements with, law enforcement that support the 
presence of police in schools, including formal or in-
formal partnerships or data and information sharing 
agreements with the Department of Justice or Sec-
retary of Homeland Security, including U. S. Immi-
gration and Customs Enforcement or U. S. Customs 
and Border Protection; 
(2) the purchase, maintenance, or installation 
of surveillance equipment or programs, including 
metal detectors, surveillance cameras, facial recogni-
tion technology, or software programs that monitor 
or mine the social media use or technology use of 
students; or 
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(3) arming teachers, principals, school leaders, 
or other school personnel. 
(f) GRANT AMOUNTS.—The amount of grant funds 
received under this section by a local educational agency 
shall be based on the number of students enrolled in the 
local educational agency. 
(g) REPORTING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Each local educational agen-
cy receiving a grant under this section shall prepare 
and submit an annual report to the Secretary con-
taining the information described in paragraph (2). 
Such report shall be made publicly available. 
(2) CONTENTS.—Subject to paragraph (3), the 
report described in paragraph (1) shall include infor-
mation about— 
(A) how the grant funds were used; 
(B) the number and percentage of students 
who were arrested by or referred to law enforce-
ment officers in the previous year compared to 
the number and percentage arrested or referred 
during the term of the grant; 
(C) in the aggregate, the reasons for those 
arrests; 
(D) demographic data of students arrested 
or 
referred 
to 
law 
enforcement 
officers, 
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disaggregated and cross-tabulated by race, eth-
nicity, age, gender, status as a child with a dis-
ability, and whether the student is eligible for 
a free or reduced price lunch under the Richard 
B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 
U.S.C. 1751 et seq.); 
(E) the number of metal detectors and 
surveillance cameras used by each school served 
by the local educational agency, as well as poli-
cies governing the use of these devices; 
(F) whether facial recognition technology 
is used by the local educational agency, and if 
so, the policies governing the use of such tech-
nology; and 
(G) whether software programs that mon-
itor or mine the social media use or technology 
use of students or the families of students are 
used by, or at the direction of, the local edu-
cational agency, and if so, the contract with the 
provider of those software programs as well as 
the policies governing the use of such programs. 
(3) 
PERSONALLY
IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMA-
TION.—Collection or disaggregation of information 
shall not be required under subparagraphs (B) 
through (D) of paragraph (2) to the extent that 
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such collection or disaggregation would reveal per-
sonally identifiable information about an individual 
student or otherwise violate privacy laws. 
(h) SUPPLEMENT NOT SUPPLANT.—A local edu-
cational agency shall use Federal funds received under this 
section only to supplement the funds that would, in the 
absence of such Federal funds, be made available from 
State and local sources for the activities described in sub-
section (d), and not to supplant such funds 
(i) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$5,000,000,000. 
Æ 
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