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.

SECTION 1. PURPOSE.

    It is the purpose of this Act to allow each public secondary 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 Secretary 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 Application.--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 supplement, 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, students, faculty, 
        school administrators, and any other individuals or groups who 
        the director requests, an opportunity to present their views 
        and make recommendations 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 Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and 
        the Republic of Palau.
            (4) Secondary school.--The term ``secondary school'' has 
        the same meaning given such term in section 14101 of the 
        Elementary and Secondary 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 accordance with section (3)(a)(3).
            (7) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the 50 States, 
        the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and 
        each outlying area.

SEC. 5. GEPA AMENDMENT.

    Section 444(b)(1) of the General Education Provisions 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 following:
            ``(K) the individual or entity hired, either directly 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.''.

Summary: Sets forth application requirements for: (1) SEAs, for grants; (2) LEAs other than specially designated ones, for subgrants; and (3) specially designated LEAs in States which do not apply for such grants, for direct grants.
Requires funds provided under this Act to be used only to hire an individual or entity as a  director to develop or improve a public secondary school safety plan and implement security measures approved in the school safety plan.
Requires such a director to have the authority to: (1) 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 (2) 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 school safety plan requirements.
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to include, among those to whom certain educational records may be released without the written consent of students' parents, directors of school safety, discipline, and assistance in their developing and implementing school safety plans.