Title: STEP Act of 2018
Policy area: Education

Summary:
School Training, Equipment, and Protection Act of 2018 or the STEP Act of 2018
This bill requires specified funds from student support and academic enrichment grants to be provided to elementary and secondary schools for security purposes, including barricade and surveillance technology, individualized active shooter alarms, security and active shooter training, coordination activities with law enforcement agencies, and vulnerability assessments.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5307 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5307

    To require that certain Federal education funds be used for the 
      improvement of security at elementary and secondary schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 15, 2018

  Mr. Knight introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require that certain Federal education funds be used for the 
      improvement of security at elementary and secondary schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``School Training, Equipment, and 
Protection Act of 2018'' or the ``STEP Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. FUNDS FOR SCHOOL TRAINING, EQUIPMENT, AND PROTECTION.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not 
less than $50,000,000 of any unobligated amounts made available before 
the date of the enactment of this Act to carry out part A of title IV 
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7101 
et seq.) shall be used to provide elementary schools and secondary 
schools with funds for the following:
            (1) Barricade technology.
            (2) Surveillance technology.
            (3) Individualized active shooter alarms.
            (4) Security and active shooter training for school faculty 
        and staff.
            (5) Coordination activities with local law enforcement 
        agencies.
            (6) Active shooter training exercises on school grounds for 
        local law enforcement agencies.
            (7) Vulnerability assessments and corresponding action 
        plans, as executed by local law enforcement agencies.
    (b) Elementary and Secondary Schools Defined.--In this section, the 
terms ``elementary school'' and ``secondary school'' have the meanings 
given the terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Education shall submit to Congress a report 
describing how funds made available under section 2 have been 
distributed among the geographic regions of the United States and among 
urban, suburban, and rural areas.
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