Title: PROTECTS Act
Policy area: Education

Summary:
Providing Reports On The Efforts Combating Threats in Schools Act or the PROTECTS Act
This bill requires the President to report to Congress within 30 days on the efforts of executive agencies to make school security improvements to protect children in public elementary and secondary schools.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7956 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7956

To require the President to submit a report to Congress on the actions 
 Executive agencies are taking to make school security improvements at 
    public elementary and secondary schools, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 7, 2022

Mr. Carter of Georgia 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 President to submit a report to Congress on the actions 
 Executive agencies are taking to make school security improvements at 
    public elementary and secondary schools, 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 ``Providing Reports On The Efforts 
Combating Threats in Schools Act'' or the ``PROTECTS Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORT ON ACTIONS TO PROTECT CHILDREN IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND 
              SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

    (a) Report.--Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the President shall submit to the relevant congressional 
committees a report on the actions Executive agencies are taking to 
make school security improvements to protect children in public 
elementary and secondary schools, including--
            (1) improvements to the infrastructure of school property 
        perimeter, parking lot perimeter, building perimeter, entrance 
        and exit points of the school building, video monitoring 
        equipment, and the interior and perimeter of the classroom, and 
        any other physical improvements related to camera systems and 
        related hardware, alarm and notification technology, and 
        visitor management technologies; and
            (2) increasing the number of school resource officers and 
        other law enforcement agencies at such schools.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given the term in section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
            (2) Relevant congressional committees.--The term ``relevant 
        congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
                Pensions, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the 
                Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
                of the Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Education and Labor, the 
                Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on 
                Homeland Security of the House of Representatives.
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