Title: School Watch and Training Act of 2018
Policy area: Education

Summary:
School Watch and Training Act of 2018
This bill requires the Department of Justice to develop, implement, and report on national standards and best practices for school resource officers.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5243 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5243

   To direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to 
develop and implement national standards and best practices for school 
                           resource officers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 9, 2018

   Mr. Higgins of Louisiana 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 direct the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to 
develop and implement national standards and best practices for school 
                           resource officers.

    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 Watch and Training Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Attorney General, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Education, shall develop and implement--
            (1) national standards for school resource officers, 
        including--
                    (A) a requirement that all school resource officers 
                complete any training recommended by the Attorney 
                General and the Secretary;
                    (B) standards governing the quality of security 
                training and active shooter training provided to school 
                resource officers; and
                    (C) any other standards the Attorney General and 
                the Secretary determine to be necessary to ensure the 
                competence of school resource officers; and
            (2) best practices for school resource officers.
    (b) School Resource Officer Defined.--In this section, the term 
``school resource officer'' has the meaning given the term in section 
1709(4) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
U.S.C. 10389(4)).

SEC. 3. REPORT.

    Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Education, shall submit to Congress a report that includes--
            (1) the standards and best practices developed under 
        section 2; and
            (2) a plan for implementing such standards and best 
        practices.
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