[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 989 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 989

              Entitled the ``Safer Schools Act of 1997''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              July 7, 1997

 Mr. Dorgan  (for himself and Mrs. Feinstein) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and 
                            Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
              Entitled the ``Safer Schools Act of 1997''.

    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 ``Safer Schools Act of 1997''.

SEC 2. SAFER SCHOOLS.

    (a) In General.--Section 14601(b)(1) of the Gun-Free Schools Act of 
1994 (20 U.S.C. 8921(b)(1)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``under this Act shall have'' and inserting 
        the following: ``under this Act--
                    ``(A) shall have'';
            (2) by striking the period at the end and inserting ``; 
        and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) beginning not later than 2 years after the 
                date of enactment of the Safer Schools Act of 1997, 
                shall have in effect a State law or regulation 
                providing that evidence that a student brought a weapon 
                to a school under the jurisdiction of the local 
                educational agencies in that State, that is obtained as 
                a result of a search or seizure conducted on school 
                premises, shall not be excluded in any school 
                disciplinary proceeding on the ground that the search 
                or seizure was in violation of the fourth amendment to 
                the Constitution of the United States.''.
    (b) Report to State.--Section 14601(d) of the Gun-Free Schools Act 
of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 8921(d)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``the State law required 
        by'' and inserting ``each State law or regulation''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``subsection (b)'' and 
        inserting ``subsection (b)(1)(A)''.
    (c) Report to Congress.--Section 14601(f) of the Gun-Free Schools 
Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 8921(f)) is amended by inserting ``of subsection 
(b)(1)(A)'' before ``of this''.
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