Title: School Resource Officer Assessment Act of 2019
Policy area: Education

Summary:
School Resource Officer Assessment Act of 2019
This bill requires the Department of Justice and the Department of Education to conduct and submit to Congress a survey of the assignment of school resource officers at public elementary and secondary schools.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 607 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 607

   To require the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to 
   conduct a survey of all public schools to determine the number of 
               school resource officers at such schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 16, 2019

Mr. Higgins of Louisiana (for himself and Mr. Ruppersberger) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
  and Labor, 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 require the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to 
   conduct a survey of all public schools to determine the number of 
               school resource officers at such 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 Resource Officer Assessment 
Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. SURVEY OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Attorney General and the Secretary of Education shall jointly conduct 
and submit to Congress, a survey of the assignment of school resource 
officers at public elementary schools and secondary schools, which 
shall include, with respect to each such school that chose to respond 
to such survey, a determination of whether--
            (1) on or after January 1, 2019, such a school has been 
        assigned a school resource officer; and
            (2) in the case of a school that has been assigned such an 
        officer--
                    (A) the number of such assignments; and
                    (B) whether each such assignment is on a full-time 
                or part-time basis.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) ESEA terms.--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).
            (2) School resource officer.--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)).
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