1.This Act may be cited as
the School Safety Enhancements Act of
2012
.
2.Grant program
for school securitySection
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)
(1)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
guidelinesNot 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)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.
.
3.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.
.
4.Authorization of
appropriationsSection 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
.