[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2371 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2371

 To make schools safer by waiving the local matching requirement under 
  the Community Policing program for the placement of law enforcement 
                       officers in local schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 1999

     Mr. Bonior (for himself, Mr. Frost, Mr. Stupak, Mr. Frank of 
Massachusetts, Mr. Maloney of Connecticut, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Barcia, Mr. 
Cummings, and Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To make schools safer by waiving the local matching requirement under 
  the Community Policing program for the placement of law enforcement 
                       officers in local 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 ``COPS in Schools Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER FOR LOCAL MATCH REQUIREMENT.

    Section 1701(i) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796dd(i)) is amended by adding at the end of the 
first sentence the following: ``The Attorney General shall waive the 
requirement under this subsection of a non-Federal contribution to the 
costs of a program, project, or activity that hires law enforcement 
officers for placement in public schools.''.
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