Title: Stronger Schools Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Stronger Schools Act
This bill requires the Department of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) to make physical improvements at elementary and secondary schools.
Grant funds must be used to ensure that each elementary and secondary school served by the LEA (1) hires a school resource officer who carries a firearm, and (2) establishes a single point of entry that includes a locked anteroom with metal detectors and bulletproof windows and where the school resource officer inspects all guests prior to entry into another area of the school.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8392 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8392

    To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to local 
 educational agencies to make physical improvements at the elementary 
 schools and secondary schools served by such agencies, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 14, 2022

 Mr. Van Drew introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Secretary of Education to make grants to local 
 educational agencies to make physical improvements at the elementary 
 schools and secondary schools served by such agencies, 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 ``Stronger Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENT GRANT PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Education shall make grants, on a 
competitive basis, to local educational agencies to perform the 
physical improvements referred to in subsection (b) for elementary 
schools and secondary schools served by such agencies.
    (b) Use of Funds.--Each local educational agency receiving a grant 
under subsection (a) shall use such funds to ensure each elementary 
school and secondary school served by such agency--
            (1) hires a school resource officer who carries a firearm; 
        and
            (2) establishes a single point of entry that includes a 
        locked anteroom--
                    (A) in which all guests of such school are 
                inspected by such officer prior to entry into another 
                area of such school; and
                    (B) which has metal detectors and bullet proof 
                windows at such point of entry.
    (c) Application.--To receive a grant under subsection (a), a local 
educational agency shall submit to the Secretary an application at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary 
may require.
    (d) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this section, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the 
implementation of subsection (a).
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``elementary school'', ``local 
        educational agency'', ``secondary school'', and ``State 
        educational agency'' have the meaning given such 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 such term in section 1709 of 
        the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
        U.S.C. 10389).
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