Title: Active Assailant Training, Readiness, and Response Act of 2018
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Active Assailant Training, Readiness, and Response Act of 2018
This bill requires the Department of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) for developing active assailant programs. Under the programs, the IHEs must assist public institutions or facilities (e.g., schools, day care centers, and hospitals) in preparing for and responding to an active assailant.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6803 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6803

To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to institutions of 
higher education for active assailant consulting and training programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 13, 2018

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to institutions of 
higher education for active assailant consulting and training programs.

    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 ``Active Assailant Training, 
Readiness, and Response Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Education shall make grants to 
institutions of higher education, on a competitive basis, to pay the 
Federal share of the costs of developing and implementing active 
assailant consulting and training programs in accordance with 
subsection (c).
    (b) Applications.--To be eligible to receive a grant under this 
section, an institution of higher education shall submit to the 
Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and containing 
such information as the Secretary may require. As part of such 
application, the institution shall identify the geographic region in 
which the institution intends to provide active assailant consulting 
and training services funded with the grant.
    (c) Use of Grant.--An institution of higher education that receives 
a grant under this section shall use the grant to develop and implement 
a program under which the institution makes available, to eligible 
entities in the geographic region served by the institution, consulting 
and training services to assist such entities in preparing for and 
responding to an active assailant at the entity's location. The program 
shall include, at minimum, training and consulting on each of the 
following topics:
            (1) Preparing for an active assailant incident.
            (2) Techniques for responding rapidly and appropriately to 
        such an incident.
            (3) Rescue and control operations in response to such an 
        incident.
            (4) Activities that may be carried out following such an 
        incident to assist those affected by the incident.
    (d) Grant Duration and Amount.--
            (1) Duration.--Each grant under this section shall be made 
        for a period of 5 years.
            (2) Amount.--The Secretary shall determine the maximum 
        amount of each grant under this section.
    (e) Federal Share.--The Federal share of a grant under this section 
shall not exceed 90 percent of the costs of carrying out the activities 
described in subsection (c).
    (f) Supplement, Not Supplant.--An institution of higher education 
shall use a grant received under this section only to supplement funds 
that would, in the absence of such grant, be made available from other 
Federal, State, or local sources for activities supported by the grant, 
not to supplant such funds.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) The term ``eligible entity'' means a public institution 
        or public facility, including--
                    (A) an elementary school;
                    (B) a secondary school;
                    (C) a daycare center;
                    (D) an institution of higher education;
                    (E) a hospital; and
                    (F) such other public institutions or facilities as 
                the Secretary determines to be appropriate.
            (2) The term ``institution of higher education'' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 101 of the Higher Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
            (3) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
        Education.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act a 
total of $30,000,000 for fiscal years 2019 through 2023.
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