Title: Securing Our Schools Act of 2018
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Securing Our Schools Act of 2018
This bill establishes a pilot program under which the Department of Justice may award one-year grants to local education agencies for the purpose of purchasing and installing devices that allow for the immediate notification of appropriate officials in case of emergency.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4811 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4811

  To provide for grants from the Attorney General to local education 
   agencies to purchase and install devices that would allow for the 
 immediate notification of appropriate officials in case of emergency, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2018

Mr. Bost (for himself and Mr. Schneider) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and 
   in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for grants from the Attorney General to local education 
   agencies to purchase and install devices that would allow for the 
 immediate notification of appropriate officials in case of emergency, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 ``Securing Our Schools Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--For each of fiscal years 2019 through 2022, the 
Attorney General may make a grant to a local education agency to 
acquire and install a device that allows for immediate notification of 
emergency response personnel, law enforcement, or other appropriate 
officials (as determined by the local education agency) in the case of 
an emergency, including a health emergency, reports of an assailant 
armed with a weapon, an act of terrorism, a natural disaster, or other 
similar emergency, as determined by the local education agency.
    (b) Application.--An application for a grant under this section 
shall be submitted at such time, in such manner, and containing such 
information as the Attorney General may require.
    (c) Matching Requirement.--The portion of the costs of a device 
acquired and installed pursuant to this section that is provided by a 
grant under subsection (a) may not exceed 75 percent.
    (d) Maximum Amount of Grant.--A grant under this section may not be 
in an amount greater than $200,000 for fiscal year.
    (e) Term of Grant.--A grant under this section shall be for a term 
of one fiscal year.
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