SAFE in Our Schools Act

Bill: 113-hr-3158
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Payne, Donald M., Jr. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2013-09-20
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education

Emergency planning and evacuation

Homeland security

School administration
Latest action: action_date: 2013-10-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-09-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Secure America for Education in Our Schools Act or the SAFE in Our Schools Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to require that each state include in its application for funds under the Homeland Security Grant Program a certification that the state requires each institution of education for kindergarten through 12th grade to develop an emergency response plan that includes provisions for evacuation relocation, family-child reunification, children with special needs, and addressing multiple disasters by the earlier of the beginning of the academic year for 2015 or September 1, 2015.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3158 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 20, 2013 Mr. Payne (for himself and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security A BILL To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require recipients of State Homeland Security Grant Program funding to promote preparedness and planning for manmade and natural disasters at educational institutions, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Secure America for Education in Our Schools Act or the SAFE in Our Schools Act . 2. Minimum contents of application for certain Homeland Security grant funds Section 2004(b)(2) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 605(b)(2) ) is amended by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as paragraphs (C) and (D), respectively, and by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following: (B) a certification that— (i) the State requires each institution of education for kindergarten through twelfth grade to develop an emergency response plan that includes provisions for— (I) evacuation relocation; (II) family-child reunification; (III) children with special needs; and (IV) addressing multiple disasters; and (ii) the State has adopted a strategy to ensure that each such institution develops a plan in accordance with clause (i) by the beginning of the academic year for 2015 or September 1, 2015, whichever is earlier; .