[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 854 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 854

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require 
  each local educational agency, as a condition for receiving Federal 
   assistance under such Act, to implement a gun-free program in its 
                                schools.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 29 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

  Mr. Dorgan introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require 
  each local educational agency, as a condition for receiving Federal 
   assistance under such Act, to implement a gun-free program in its 
                                schools.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gun-Free Schools Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. GUN-FREE REQUIREMENTS IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

    The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 2701 
et seq.) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating title X as title IX;
            (2) by redesignating sections 8001 through 8005 as sections 
        9001 through 9005, respectively; and
            (3) by inserting after title VII the following new title:

                     ``TITLE VIII--GUN-FREE SCHOOLS

``SEC. 8001. GUN-FREE REQUIREMENTS.

    ``(a) Requirements.--
            ``(1) In general.--No assistance may be provided to any 
        local educational agency under this Act unless such agency has 
        in effect a policy requiring the expulsion from school for a 
        period of not less than one year of any student who is 
        determined to have brought a weapon to a school under the 
        jurisdiction of the agency.
            ``(2) Definition.--For the purpose of this section, the 
        term ``weapon'' means a firearm as such term is defined in 
        section 921 of title 18, United States Code.
    ``(b) Report to State.--Each local educational agency requesting 
assistance from the State educational agency that is to be provided 
from funds made available to the State under this Act shall provide to 
the State, in the application requesting such assistance--
            ``(1) an assurance that such local educational agency has 
        in effect the policy required by subsection (a); and
            ``(2) a description of the circumstances surrounding any 
        expulsions imposed under the policy required by subsection (a), 
        including--
                    ``(A) the name of the school concerned;
                    ``(B) the number of students expelled from such 
                school; and
                    ``(C) the types of weapons concerned.''.

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