Title: STOP II: Classrooms Over Conference Rooms Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
STOP II: Classrooms Over Conference Rooms Act
This bill increases the authorization of appropriations for FY2022-FY2028 for the Secure Our Schools grant program. The program provides grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes to improve security, including the placement and use of metal detectors and other deterrent measures, at schools and on school grounds.
The bill requires any funds appropriated under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which may be used for renting conference rooms in the District of Columbia with respect to the administration of federal education programs, to instead be used for the Secure Our Schools grant program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1635 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1635

 To increase authorization of the grant program for school security in 
        the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2021

  Mr. Hudson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
    Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 
Education and Labor, 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 increase authorization of the grant program for school security in 
        the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

    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 ``STOP II: Classrooms Over Conference 
Rooms Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY.

    (a) In General.--Section 2705 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10555) is amended--
            (1) by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
    ``(a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
$200,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2022 through 2028, of which, for 
each fiscal year--
            ``(1) $133,333,333 shall be made available to the BJA 
        Director to carry out this part; and
            ``(2) $66,666,667 shall be made available to the COPS 
        Director to carry out this part.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b) by adding at the end the following: 
        ``Any funds appropriated under the Consolidated Appropriations 
        Act of 2021, which may be used for purposes of renting 
        conference rooms in the District of Columbia in carrying out 
        the Department of Education Organization Act shall instead be 
        used for the purposes in subsection (a).''.
    (b) Authorization.--There are authorized to be appropriated to 
carry out the Department of Education Organization Act, $270,000,000 
(reduced by $270,000,000) for fiscal year 2022.
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