[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4661 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4661

   To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to any entity for the 
 construction of a Federal facility unless the entity has in effect a 
policy of conducting a criminal background check on an employee before 
 allowing the employee to participate in the construction of a public 
     elementary school or secondary school, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2006

 Mr. Andrews introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To prohibit the provision of Federal funds to any entity for the 
 construction of a Federal facility unless the entity has in effect a 
policy of conducting a criminal background check on an employee before 
 allowing the employee to participate in the construction of a public 
     elementary school or secondary school, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Background Check for Student Safety 
Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds as follows:
            (1) The security of the Nation's schools must be of the 
        highest priority.
            (2) On September 1, 2004, Chechen terrorists seized a 
        school in Beslan, Russia, and held more than 1,000 students, 
        teachers, administrators, and parents hostage for 3 days before 
        killing 330 individuals, including more than half of the 
        children in the school.
            (3) Reports have indicated that the Chechen terrorists may 
        have planted weapons in the floorboards of the school during a 
        construction project that took place over the summer of 2004.
            (4) Workers at school construction sites have unfettered 
        access to the school and blueprints detailing its layout.
            (5) Such complete familiarity with and access to the school 
        allows an individual to gather information and plant weaponry 
        that could be used in future attacks, as occurred in Beslan.

SEC. 2. CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATING IN THE 
              CONSTRUCTION OF A PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL.

    (a) Prohibition.--No Federal funds may be provided to any entity 
for the construction of a Federal facility unless the entity has in 
effect a policy of conducting a criminal background check on an 
employee before allowing the employee--
            (1) to participate in the construction of a public 
        elementary school or secondary school; or
            (2) to have access to blueprints or other materials with 
        details on such construction.
    (b) Definitions.--For purposes of this Act:
            (1) The terms ``elementary school'' and ``secondary 
        school'' have the meanings given to those terms in section 9101 
        of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
        U.S.C. 7801).
            (2) The term ``employee'' includes any employee of the 
        entity involved or of a contractor or subsidiary of the entity.
            (3) The term ``Federal facility'' includes any Federal 
        building or other structure.
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