[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6063 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6063

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
    enhance the safety of elementary schools and secondary schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2010

  Mr. Rothman of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
    enhance the safety of elementary schools and 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 Enhancements Act of 
2010''.

SEC. 2. 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)--
                            (i) by striking ``Placement'' and inserting 
                        ``Installation''; and
                            (ii) by inserting ``surveillance 
                        equipment,'' after ``detectors,'';
                    (B) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph 
                (6); and
                    (C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
            ``(5) Establishment of hotlines or tiplines for the 
        reporting of potentially dangerous students or situations.'';
            (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 not more than 75 
        percent of the total 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 2010, 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 one year after such date of enactment. In developing the 
final advisory school safety guidelines, the interagency task force 
shall consult with stakeholders and interested parties, including 
parents, teachers, and relevant State and local agencies.''.

SEC. 3. 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 law 
        enforcement executive of the State, unit of local government, 
        or Indian tribe, certifying 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. 4. ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.

    Section 2703 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797c) is amended by striking ``and the activities for 
which those funds were used'' and inserting ``and a detailed 
itemization of how those funds were utilized''.

SEC. 5. 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 2011 through 2014''.
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