Protect Our Children's Schools Act

Bill: 117-s-4586
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2022-07-21
Policy area: Education
Latest action: action_date: 2022-07-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-07-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Protect Our Children's Schools Act</strong></p> <p>This bill requires certain unobligated federal COVID-19 relief funds to be made available to local educational agencies for keeping elementary and secondary schools physically secure.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 4586 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 21, 2022 Mr. Cruz (for himself and Mr. Lankford ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To keep schools physically secure using unobligated Federal funds available to the Secretary of Education to respond to the coronavirus.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect Our Children's Schools Act . 2. Keeping schools physically secure The unobligated balance of funds made available to carry out section 18003 of division B of the CARES Act ( Public Law 116–136 ; 20 U.S.C. 3401 note), section 313 of the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (division M of Public Law 116–260 ; 134 Stat. 1929), and section 2001 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 ( Public Law 117–2 ; 20 U.S.C. 3401 note) shall be made available to local educational agencies to keep the elementary schools and secondary schools served by such agencies physically secure.