113 S146 RS: School Safety Enhancements Act of 2013
U.S. Senate
2013-01-24
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1.This Act may be cited as the
School Safety Enhancements Act of
2013
.
2.Grant program for
school securitySection 2701
of title I 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)—
(i)by striking
Placement
and inserting Installation
; and
(ii)by inserting
surveillance equipment,
after detectors,
;
(B)by redesignating
paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
(C)by inserting after
paragraph (4) the following:
(5)Establishment of
hotlines or tiplines for the reporting of potentially dangerous students and
situations.
;
(2)in subsection (d),
by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
(1)The Federal share
of the costs of a program provided by a grant under subsection (a) shall be not
more than 80 percent of the total of such
costs.
;
and
(3)by adding at the
end the following:
(g)
(1)Not
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the
School Safety Enhancements Act of
2013, 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.
(2)Publication of
guidelinesNot later than 1 year after the date of enactment of
the School Safety Enhancements Act of
2013, the advisory school safety guidelines promulgated by the
interagency task force shall be published in the Federal Register.
(3)In developing the final advisory school safety
guidelines under this subsection, the interagency task force shall consult with
stakeholders and interested parties, including parents, teachers, and
agencies.
.
3.Section 2702(a)(2) of title I 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—
(A)signed by the heads of each law enforcement
agency and school district with jurisdiction over the schools where the safety
improvements will be implemented; and
(B)demonstrating that each proposed use of the
grant funds will be—
(i)an effective means for improving the safety
of 1 or more schools;
(ii)consistent with a comprehensive approach to
preventing school violence; and
(iii)individualized to the needs of each school
at which those improvements are to be
made.
.
4.Authorization of
appropriationsSection 2705 of
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C.
3797e) is amended—
(1)by striking $30,000,000
and
inserting $100,000,000
; and
(2)by striking
2001 through 2009
and inserting 2014 through
2023
.
1.This Act may be cited as the
School and Campus Safety Enhancements
Act of 2013
.
2.Grant program for school
securitySection 2701 of title
I 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)—
(i)by striking
Placement
and inserting Installation
; and
(ii)by inserting
surveillance equipment,
after detectors,
;
(B)by redesignating
paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
(C)by inserting after
paragraph (4) the following:
(5)Establishment of hotlines
or tiplines for the reporting of potentially dangerous students and
situations.
;
and
(2)by adding at the end the
following:
(g)
(1)Not
later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the
School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act of
2013, 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.
(2)Publication of
guidelinesNot later than 1 year after the date of enactment of
the School and Campus Safety Enhancements Act
of 2013, the advisory school safety guidelines promulgated by the
interagency task force shall be published in the Federal Register.
(3)In developing the final advisory school safety
guidelines under this subsection, the interagency task force shall consult with
stakeholders and interested parties, including parents, teachers, and
agencies.
.
3.Section 2702(a)(2) of title I 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—
(A)signed by the heads of each law enforcement
agency and school district with jurisdiction over the schools where the safety
improvements will be implemented; and
(B)demonstrating that each proposed use of the
grant funds will be—
(i)an effective means for improving the safety
of 1 or more schools;
(ii)consistent with a comprehensive approach to
preventing school violence; and
(iii)individualized to the needs of each school
at which those improvements are to be
made.
.
4.Authorization of
appropriationsSection 2705 of
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C.
3797e) is amended—
(1)by striking $30,000,000
and
inserting $40,000,000
; and
(2)by striking 2001
through 2009
and inserting 2014 through 2023
.
5.Section 2701 of title I of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a), as amended by section 2
of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following:
(h)All
grants awarded by the Attorney General under this part shall be subject to the
following accountability provisions:
(1)
(A)In
this paragraph, the term unresolved audit finding means a finding
in the final audit report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice
that the audited grantee has utilized grant funds for an unauthorized
expenditure or otherwise unallowable cost that is not closed or resolved within
12 months from the date when the final audit report is issued.
(B)Beginning
in the first fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this
subsection, and in each fiscal year thereafter, the Inspector General of the
Department of Justice shall conduct audits of recipients of grants under this
part to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse of funds by grantees. The Inspector
General shall determine the appropriate number of grantees to be audited each
year.
(C)A recipient of grant funds under this part that is
found to have an unresolved audit finding shall not be eligible to receive
grant funds under this part during the first 2 fiscal years beginning after the
end of the 12-month period described in subparagraph (A).
(D)In
awarding grants under this part, the Attorney General shall give priority to
eligible applicants that did not have an unresolved audit finding during the 3
fiscal years before submitting an application for a grant under this
part.
(E)If
an entity is awarded grant funds under this part during the 2-fiscal-year
period during which the entity is barred from receiving grants under
subparagraph (C), the Attorney General shall—
(i)deposit an amount equal
to the amount of the grant funds that were improperly awarded to the grantee
into the General Fund of the Treasury; and
(ii)seek to recoup the costs
of the repayment to the fund from the grant recipient that was erroneously
awarded grant funds.
(2)Nonprofit organization
requirements
(A)For
purposes of this paragraph and the grant programs under this part, the term
nonprofit organization means an organization that is described in
section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from
taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.
(B)The
Attorney General may not award a grant under this part to a nonprofit
organization that holds money in offshore accounts for the purpose of avoiding
paying the tax described in section 511(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986.
(C)Each
nonprofit organization that is awarded a grant under this part and uses the
procedures prescribed in regulations to create a rebuttable presumption of
reasonableness for the compensation of its officers, directors, trustees and
key employees, shall disclose to the Attorney General, in the application for
the grant, the process for determining such compensation, including the
independent persons involved in reviewing and approving such compensation, the
comparability data used, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation
and decision. Upon request, the Attorney General shall make the information
disclosed under this subparagraph available for public inspection.
(3)
(A)No
amounts authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Justice under this
part may be used by the Attorney General, or by any individual or entity
awarded discretionary funds through a cooperative agreement under this part, to
host or support any expenditure for conferences that uses more than $20,000 in
funds made available by the Department of Justice, unless the Deputy Attorney
General or such Assistant Attorney Generals, Directors, or principal deputies
as the Deputy Attorney General may designate, provides prior written
authorization that the funds may be expended to host the conference.
(B)Written approval under subparagraph (A) shall include a
written estimate of all costs associated with the conference, including the
cost of all food, beverages, audio-visual equipment, honoraria for speakers,
and entertainment.
(C)The
Deputy Attorney General shall submit an annual report to the Committee on the
Judiciary of the Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives on all conference expenditures approved under this
paragraph.
(4)Beginning in the first fiscal year beginning after
the date of enactment of this subsection, the Attorney General shall submit, to
the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate and the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives, an annual certification—
(A)indicating
whether—
(i)all audits issued by the
Office of the Inspector General under paragraph (1) have been completed and
reviewed by the appropriate Assistant Attorney General or Director;
(ii)all mandatory exclusions
required under paragraph (1)(C) have been issued; and
(iii)all reimbursements
required under paragraph (1)(E) have been made; and
(B)that includes a list of
any grant recipients excluded under paragraph (1) from the previous
year.
.
6.CAMPUS Safety Act of
2013
(a)This section may be
cited as the Center to Advance,
Monitor, and Preserve University Security Safety Act of
2013
or the CAMPUS Safety Act of 2013
.
(b)National Center for
Campus Public SafetySubpart
1 of part E of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3750 et seq.) is amended—
(1)in section 501 (42 U.S.C. 3751)—
(A)in subsection (a)(1)—
(i)in the matter preceding
subparagraph (A), by inserting or purposes
after one or
more of the following programs
; and
(ii)by adding at the end the following:
(H)Making subawards to
institutions of higher education and other nonprofit organizations to assist
the National Center for Campus Public Safety in carrying out the functions of
the Center required under section
509(c).
;
and
(B)in subsection (b)—
(i)in paragraph (1), by
striking or
at the end;
(ii)in paragraph (2), by
striking the period and inserting ; or
; and
(iii)by adding at the end
the following:
(3)institutions of higher
education and other nonprofit organizations, for purposes of carrying out
section 509.
;
and
(2)by adding at the end the
following:
509.National Center for
Campus Public Safety
(a)Definition of
institution of higher educationIn this section, the term
institution of higher education has the meaning given the term in
section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001).
(b)Authority to establish
and operate CenterThe Attorney General may establish and operate
a National Center for Campus Public Safety (referred to in this section as the
Center).
(c)The Center shall—
(1)provide quality education
and training for public safety personnel of institutions of higher education
and their collaborative partners, including campus mental health
agencies;
(2)foster quality research
to strengthen the safety and security of institutions of higher
education;
(3)serve as a clearinghouse
for the identification and dissemination of information, policies, protocols,
procedures, and best practices relevant to campus public safety, including
off-campus housing safety, the prevention of violence against persons and
property, and emergency response and evacuation procedures;
(4)coordinate with the
Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Education, State, local and
tribal governments and law enforcement agencies, private and nonprofit
organizations and associations, and other stakeholders, to develop protocols
and best practices to prevent, protect against and respond to dangerous and
violent situations involving an immediate threat to the safety of the campus
community;
(5)promote the development
and dissemination of effective behavioral threat assessment and management
models to prevent campus violence;
(6)identify campus safety
information (including ways to increase off-campus housing safety) and identify
resources available from the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland
Security, the Department of Education, State, local, and tribal governments and
law enforcement agencies, and private and nonprofit organizations and
associations;
(7)promote cooperation,
collaboration, and consistency in prevention, response, and problem-solving
methods among public safety and emergency management personnel of institutions
of higher education and their campus- and non-campus-based collaborative
partners, including law enforcement, emergency management, mental health
services, and other relevant agencies;
(8)disseminate standardized
formats and models for mutual aid agreements and memoranda of understanding
between campus security agencies and other public safety organizations and
mental health agencies; and
(9)report annually to
Congress on activities performed by the Center during the previous 12
months.
(d)Coordination with
available resourcesIn
establishing the Center, the Attorney General shall—
(1)coordinate with the
Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Education, and appropriate
State or territory officials;
(2)ensure coordination with
campus public safety resources within the Department of Homeland Security,
including within the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Department of
Education; and
(3)coordinate within the
Department of Justice and existing grant programs to ensure against duplication
with the program authorized by this section.
(e)Reporting and
accountabilityAt the end of each fiscal year, the Attorney
General shall—
(1)issue a report that
assesses the impacts, outcomes and effectiveness of the grants distributed to
carry out this section;
(2)in compiling such report,
assess instances of duplicative activity, if any, performed through grants
distributed to carry out this section and other grant programs maintained by
the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, and the Department of
Homeland Security; and
(3)make such report
available on the Department of Justice website and submit such report to the
Senate and House Judiciary Committees and the Senate and House Appropriations
Committees.
.
(c)Nothing in this
section shall preclude public elementary and secondary schools or their larger
governing agencies from receiving the informational and training benefits of
the National Center for Campus Public Safety authorized under section 509 of
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as added by this
Act.
March 12, 2013
Reported with an amendment