[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8670 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8670

To make certain amounts available for grants under the COPS program to 
 be used for establishing school-based partnerships between local law 
enforcement agencies and local school systems by using school resource 
                               officers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 2022

Mr. Moore of Alabama introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To make certain amounts available for grants under the COPS program to 
 be used for establishing school-based partnerships between local law 
enforcement agencies and local school systems by using school resource 
                               officers.

    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 ``Securing American Classrooms Act of 
2022''.

SEC. 2. IN GENERAL.

    Notwithstanding any provision of section 9705 of title 31, United 
States Code, $1,000,000,000 of the funds available in the Department of 
the Treasury Forfeiture Fund established under that section shall be 
made available to the Attorney General, to remain available until 
expended. The Attorney General shall use such funds to make grants 
under part Q of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968, except that $750,000,000 of such grants may only be made 
to grantees who certify that they will use such funds for the purpose 
under section 1701(b)(12) of such part, and who will be hiring at least 
one veteran as a school resource officer.
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