115 HR 5242 : School Resource Officer Assessment Act of 2018 U.S. House of Representatives 2018-05-16 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

IIB 115th CONGRESS2d Session H. R. 5242 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 16, 2018Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsAN ACT To require the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to conduct a survey of all public schools to determine the number of school resource officers at such schools.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the School Resource Officer Assessment Act of 2018.

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Survey of public schools

Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education shall jointly conduct and submit to Congress, a survey of the assignment of school resource officers at public elementary schools and secondary schools, which shall include, with respect to each such school that chose to respond to such survey, a determination of whether— (1)on or after January 1, 2018, such a school has been assigned a school resource officer; and (2)in the case of a school that has been assigned such an officer— (A)the number of such assignments; and (B)whether each such assignment is on a full-time or part-time basis.

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Definitions

In this Act: (1)

ESEA terms

The terms elementary school and secondary school have the meanings given the terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). (2)

School resource officer

The term school resource officer has the meaning given the term in section 1709(4) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10389(4)).

Passed the House of Representatives May 15, 2018.Karen L. Haas,Clerk