[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3693 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3693

              To enhance the safety of America's schools.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 19, 2012

  Mrs. Boxer 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 America's 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 
2012''.

SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR SCHOOL SECURITY.

    Section 2701 of title I 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 and situations.'';
            (2) in subsection (d), by striking paragraph (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 80 
        percent of the total of such costs.''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Interagency Task Force.--
            ``(1) Establishment.--Not later than 60 days after the date 
        of enactment of the School Safety Enhancements Act of 2012, 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.
            ``(2) Publication of guidelines.--Not later than 1 year 
        after the date of enactment of the School Safety Enhancements 
        Act of 2012, the advisory school safety guidelines promulgated 
        by the interagency task force shall be published in the Federal 
        Register.
            ``(3) Required consultation.--In developing the final 
        advisory school safety guidelines under this subsection, the 
        interagency task force shall consult with stakeholders and 
        interested parties, including parents, teachers, and 
        agencies.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICATIONS.

    Section 2702(a)(2) of title I 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--
                    ``(A) signed by the heads of each law enforcement 
                agency and school district with jurisdiction over the 
                schools where the safety improvements will be 
                implemented; and
                    ``(B) demonstrating that each proposed use of the 
                grant funds will be--
                            ``(i) an effective means for improving the 
                        safety of 1 or more schools;
                            ``(ii) consistent with a comprehensive 
                        approach to preventing school violence; and
                            ``(iii) individualized to the needs of each 
                        school at which those improvements are to be 
                        made.''.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 2705 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797e) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``$30,000,000'' and inserting 
        ``$50,000,000''; and
            (2) by striking ``2001 through 2009'' and inserting ``2013, 
        2014, and 2015''.
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