[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 1217 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1217

  To enhance the safety of elementary schools, secondary schools, and 
                   institutions of higher education.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 25, 2007

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To enhance the safety of elementary schools, secondary schools, and 
                   institutions of higher education.

    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 Enhancements Act of 
2007''.

    TITLE I--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS

SEC. 101. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY.

    Section 2701 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797a) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``surveillance 
                equipment,'' after ``detectors,'';
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the 
                following:
            ``(2) Establishment of hotlines or tiplines for the 
        reporting of potentially dangerous students and situations.'';
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph 
                (6); and
                    (D) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
            ``(5) Capital improvements to make school facilities more 
        secure.'';
            (2) by striking subsection (d)(1) and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) The Federal share of the costs of a program provided 
        by a grant under subsection (a) shall be 80 percent of the 
        total of such costs. The non-Federal share of such costs shall 
        be 20 percent of such costs.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Interagency Task Force.--Not later than 60 days after the 
date of enactment of the School Safety Enhancements Act of 2007, the 
Director and the Secretary of Education, or the designee of the 
Secretary, shall establish an interagency task force to develop and 
promulgate a set of advisory school safety guidelines. The advisory 
school safety guidelines shall be published in the Federal Register by 
not later than June 1, 2008.''.

SEC. 102. APPLICATIONS.

    Section 2702(a)(2) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797b(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(2) be accompanied by a report, signed by the chief 
        education officer and the attorney general or other chief legal 
        officer of the State, unit of local government, or Indian 
        tribe, demonstrating that each proposed use of the grant funds 
        will be--
                    ``(A) an effective means for improving the safety 
                of one or more schools;
                    ``(B) consistent with a comprehensive approach to 
                preventing school violence; and
                    ``(C) individualized to the needs of each school at 
                which those improvements are to be made.''.

SEC. 103. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 2705 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is amended by striking ``$30,000,000 for each of 
fiscal years 2001 through 2009'' and inserting ``$50,000,000 for each 
of the fiscal years 2008 and 2009''.

            TITLE II--HIGHER EDUCATION SECURITY ENHANCEMENT

SEC. 201. REQUIREMENT FOR CAMPUS SAFETY ASSESSMENTS.

    Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) Campus Safety Assessment.--Each eligible institution 
participating in any program under this title shall conduct an annual 
campus safety assessment that shall be prepared through consultation 
between the institution's staff, including safety and security 
personnel, and local law enforcement officials.''.

SEC. 202. REQUIREMENT FOR CAMPUS EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANS.

    Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended in 
section 201 (20 U.S.C. 1092), is further amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(i) Campus Emergency Response Plan.--Each eligible institution 
participating in any program under this title shall develop and 
implement a campus emergency response plan to address a comprehensive 
set of emergency situations, including the following:
            ``(1) Natural disasters.
            ``(2) Law enforcement emergencies, such as bomb threats or 
        active shooter situations.
            ``(3) Terrorist threats or attacks.''.
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