Title: PROTECT KIDS Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Promoting Resource Officers Together for Exceptionally Critical Targets with Key Investments in Districts and Schools Act of 2019 or the PROTECT KIDS Act
This bill authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to establish a five-year pilot program to make grants to local educational agencies for the hiring of school resource officers in elementary and secondary schools.
DOJ may give preferential consideration to local educational agencies that have a student population exceeding 65,000.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 443 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 443

   To authorize the Attorney General to establish a five-year pilot 
program to make grants to local educational agencies for the hiring of 
           school resource officers, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 10, 2019

Mr. Bilirakis 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 authorize the Attorney General to establish a five-year pilot 
program to make grants to local educational agencies for the hiring of 
           school resource officers, 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 ``Promoting Resource Officers Together 
for Exceptionally Critical Targets with Key Investments in Districts 
and Schools Act of 2019'' or the ``PROTECT KIDS Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR THE HIRING AND TRAINING OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS.

    (a) Establishment.--The Attorney General may establish a five-year 
pilot program to make grants to local educational agencies to enter 
into partnerships with local law enforcement agencies for the hiring of 
school resource officers to operate in and around elementary schools 
and secondary schools.
    (b) Application Requirement.--A grant may be made under subsection 
(a) if a local educational agency submits an application to the 
Attorney General at such time, in such manner, and containing such 
information as the Attorney General may require. The application shall 
include a list of elementary schools or secondary schools in the 
jurisdiction of the local educational agency--
            (1) that seek to use a school resource officer;
            (2) at which no school resource officer is deployed at the 
        time of the application; and
            (3) to which a school resource officer is expected to be 
        deployed using a grant.
    (c) Preferential Consideration of Certain Applications.--In making 
grants under subsection (a), the Attorney general may give preferential 
consideration, where feasible, to local educational agencies determined 
by the Secretary of Education to have a student population exceeding 
65,000 in the jurisdiction of such local educational agency as of 
January 1, 2019.
    (d) Amount of Grant.--The amount of a grant under this section may 
not exceed $10,000,000 for each fiscal year.
    (e) Matching Funds.--The Attorney General may make a grant under 
subsection (a) only if the applicant for the grant agrees to match, 
from funds provided from State or local government sources, a cash 
amount equal to 100 percent of the grant made available by the Attorney 
General.
    (f) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) Elementary school; secondary school; local educational 
        agency.--The terms ``elementary school'', ``secondary school'', 
        and ``local educational agency'' have the meanings given those 
        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 1706 of the 
        Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 
        10389).
    (g) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated $225,000,000 for the first fiscal year beginning after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and each of the next four fiscal 
years thereafter.
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