Title: To direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a grant program to secure elementary schools and secondary schools.
Policy area: Education

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Education to award grants to local education agencies to secure elementary and secondary schools, including by completing a security assessment for each school and making improvements based on such assessment.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5107 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5107

 To direct the Secretary of Education to carry out a grant program to 
            secure elementary schools and secondary schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 27, 2018

 Mr. Williams 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 carry out a grant program to 
            secure elementary schools and secondary schools.

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

SECTION 1. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that the top priority of the Department 
of Education should be to keep American children safe in schools.

SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM TO SECURE SCHOOLS.

    (a) In General.--From the amounts appropriated to carry out this 
Act, the Secretary of Education shall award grants to local educational 
agencies to secure the elementary schools and secondary schools served 
by such agencies.
    (b) Application.--To receive a grant under this Act, a local 
educational agency shall submit an application to the Secretary of 
Education at such time, in such manner, and containing such information 
that the Secretary may require, which shall include the results of an 
independent security assessment.
    (c) Uses of Funds.--A local educational agency receiving a grant 
under this Act--
            (1) shall use such grant to make the necessary improvements 
        to the security of the elementary schools and secondary schools 
        served by the agency based upon the vulnerabilities determined 
        in the individual security assessment completed by the agency 
        under subsection (b);
            (2) may use such grant to cover the cost of such 
        assessment; and
            (3) may not use such grant for expenses unrelated to the 
        cost of such assessment or such necessary improvements.
    (d) Funds.--Any amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to 
the Secretary of Education for any purpose for a fiscal year may be 
made available for this Act for that fiscal year, notwithstanding any 
provision of law with respect to the purpose, reprogramming, or 
transfer of such amounts.
    (e) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``elementary school'', ``local 
        educational agency'', and ``secondary school'' have the 
        meanings given such terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and 
        Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            (2) Independent security assessment.--The term 
        ``independent security assessment'' means an assessment--
                    (A) conducted by an organization that does not have 
                a business relationship with the local educational 
                agency for which the assessment is being conducted; and
                    (B) for which the content is determined by the 
                Secretary of Education.
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