[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1286 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1286

 To authorize the Attorney General to make grants to local educational 
  agencies to carry out school violence prevention and school safety 
                    activities in secondary schools.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 1999

Mrs. Boxer (for herself and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the Attorney General to make grants to local educational 
  agencies to carry out school violence prevention and school safety 
                    activities in secondary 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 ``School Safety Fund Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act, the terms ``local educational agency'' and ``secondary 
school'' have the meanings given the terms in section 14101 of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801).

SEC. 3. PURPOSE.

    The purpose of this Act is to assist local educational agencies in 
preventing and responding to the threat of juvenile violence in 
secondary schools through the implementation of effective school 
violence prevention and school safety programs.

SEC. 4. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.

    The Attorney General is authorized to carry out a program under 
which the Attorney General awards grants to local educational agencies 
to assist the local educational agencies in establishing and operating 
school violence prevention and school safety activities in secondary 
schools.

SEC. 5. APPLICATIONS.

    Each local educational agency desiring a grant under this section 
shall submit an application to the Attorney General at such time, in 
such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Attorney 
General may require. Each application shall--
            (1) include a detailed explanation of--
                    (A) the intended uses of funds provided under the 
                grant; and
                    (B) how the activities funded under the grant will 
                meet the purpose of this Act; and
            (2) a written assurance that the funds provided under the 
        grant will be used to supplement and not supplant other State 
        and local public funds available for school violence prevention 
        and school safety activities in secondary schools.

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.

    A local educational agency may use grant funds provided under this 
Act--
            (1) to establish hotlines or tiplines for the reporting of 
        potentially dangerous students and situations;
            (2) to hire community police officers;
            (3) to purchase metal detectors, surveillance cameras, and 
        other school security equipment;
            (4) to provide training to teachers, administrators, and 
        other school personnel in the identification and detection of, 
        and responses to, early warning signs of troubled and 
        potentially violent youth;
            (5) to establish conflict resolution, counseling, 
        mentoring, and other violence prevention and intervention 
        programs for students;
            (6) to hire counselors, psychologists, mental health 
        professionals, and school social workers; and
            (7) for any other purpose that the Attorney General 
        determines to be appropriate and consistent with the purpose of 
        this Act.

SEC. 7. FUNDING.

    From amounts appropriated to the Department of Justice from the 
Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund established under section 310001 of 
the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 
14211), the Attorney General may make available such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act for each of the fiscal years 2000 
through 2004.

SEC. 8. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Not later than November 30th of each year, the Attorney General 
shall report to Congress regarding the number of grants funded under 
this Act for the preceding fiscal year, the amount of funds provided 
under the grants for the preceding fiscal year, and the activities for 
which grant funds were used for the preceding fiscal year.
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