1.This Act may be cited as the
School Safety Enhancements Act of
2007
.
<enum>I</enum><header>Elementary and
secondary education safety enhancements</header>
<section id="H6B7F691491524BCD836F612D227C3586"><enum>101.</enum><header>Grant program
for school security</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section
2701 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C.
3797a) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H44A475BDE5914867846400CB247EAF1E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subsection
(b)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H7E4CD77577E7452EA67147D93048DA5F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1),
by inserting <quote>surveillance equipment,</quote> after
<quote>detectors,</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEAF7699244494E858DC25B4469F7E2B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by striking
paragraph (2) and inserting the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2B82D73F06CA4500A66EE4EE5FE82196" style="OLC">
<paragraph id="HB39F8B49753A4B16B87F60B79C215327"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Establishment of
hotlines or tiplines for the reporting of potentially dangerous students and
situations.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H696DE7C881DE4CB597E7135449B0CFCB"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by redesignating
paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H28592A61E17F4E38008D29F6D39C4681"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by inserting after
paragraph (4) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H436DF288F9B94065852187F8F173F1E8"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Capital
improvements to make school facilities more
secure.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H9342ED0FBB744B5F9F97FC19002C2845"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by striking
subsection (d)(1) and inserting the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="HE6C5C8B4D57545DD987E022152B2FC3F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>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.</text>
</paragraph><after-quoted-block>;
and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H27B6B75386944F7CA2D97643C19F7251"><enum>(3)</enum><text>by adding at the
end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="HD7D78000A4494C6E94439589C296D349"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Interagency task
force</header><text>Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of the
<short-title>School Safety Enhancements Act of
2007</short-title>, 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.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></section><section id="H5C0CE177833F452683F80629005BB21C"><enum>102.</enum><header>Applications</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCA0D8F5E054944C1B4DF7ED6B75E531C" style="OLC">
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA42579B0BE524A36BA6CB51844E95BB0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>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—</text>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDF3E2035C95D43B9B6D87F015FA4C86C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>an effective means
for improving the safety of one or more schools;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H753B59C875B2466FB2DCEA31DF65569D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>consistent with a
comprehensive approach to preventing school violence; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H47D6EB4702D84F989DCC77E8D418E8A1"><enum>(C)</enum><text>individualized to
the needs of each school at which those improvements are to be
made.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H092D71FB762740DAAFC6B33E30F5637F"><enum>103.</enum><header>Authorization
of appropriations</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 2705
of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is
amended by striking <quote>$30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2001 through
2009</quote> and inserting <quote>$50,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008
and 2009</quote>.</text>
</section><enum>II</enum><header>Higher education
security enhancement</header>
<section id="id1700502C25924EF28E6B78BB73BD0E95"><enum>201.</enum><header>Requirement
for campus safety assessments</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 485 of the Higher Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1092) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subsection id="id3F39DD48689F45D6B3E68B1CA1222E91"><enum>(h)</enum><header>Campus safety
assessment</header><text>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.</text>
</subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="id48249511640D4009B8574D0250B10EFA"><enum>202.</enum><header>Requirement
for campus emergency response plans</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">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:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="id2A48FBC66D61475CACE6C2452F71105C" style="OLC">
<subsection id="idAD7262EED8B245389C3C12F459042B18"><enum>(i)</enum><header>Campus
emergency response plan</header><text>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:</text>
<paragraph id="ID31d6bb18519c44fc8c3dfea898ca41c7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Natural
disasters.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID81cc5be0c2cc46caafb50e0118467a63"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Law enforcement
emergencies, such as bomb threats or active shooter situations.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDa3c24023b044415993fad41328d490e1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Terrorist threats
or
attacks.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section>