H.R. 1097 – Reading Mode

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 1097

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 15, 2007

Mr. Rothman (for himself, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Patrick J. Murphy of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Baca) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To improve the grant program for secure schools under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.

Short title

This Act may be cited as the School Safety Enhancements Act of 2007.

Grant program for school security

Section 2701 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a) is amended—

(1)

in subsection (b)—

(A)

in paragraph (1), by inserting surveillance equipment, after detectors,;

(B)

by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:

(2)

Establishment of hotlines or tiplines for the reporting of potentially dangerous students and situations.

;

(C)

by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and

(D)

by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:

(5)

Capital improvements to make school facilities more secure.

;

(2)

by striking subsection (d)(1) and inserting the following:

(1)

The Federal share of the costs of a program provided by a grant under subsection (a) shall be 80 percent of the total of such costs. The non-Federal share of such costs shall be 20 percent of such costs.

; and

(3)

by adding at the end the following:

(g)

Interagency task force

Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the School Safety Enhancements Act of 2007, the Director and the Secretary of Education, or the designee of the Secretary, shall establish an interagency task force to develop and promulgate a set of advisory school safety guidelines. The advisory school safety guidelines shall be published in the Federal Register by not later than June 1, 2008.

Applications

Section 2702(a)(2) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797b(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows:

(2)

be accompanied by a report, signed by the chief education officer and the attorney general or other chief legal officer of the State, unit of local government, or Indian tribe, demonstrating that each proposed use of the grant funds will be—

(A)

an effective means for improving the safety of one or more schools;

(B)

consistent with a comprehensive approach to preventing school violence; and

(C)

individualized to the needs of each school at which those improvements are to be made.

Authorization of appropriations

Section 2705 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is amended by striking $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2009 and inserting $50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008 and 2009.