[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1081 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1081

   To keep schools physically secure using unobligated Federal funds 
 available to the Secretary of Education to respond to the coronavirus.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 30, 2023

   Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
   To keep schools physically secure using unobligated Federal funds 
 available to the Secretary of Education to respond to the coronavirus.

    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 ``Protect Our Children's Schools 
Act''.

SEC. 2. KEEPING SCHOOLS PHYSICALLY SECURE.

    The unobligated balance of funds made available to carry out 
section 18003 of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136; 20 
U.S.C. 3401 note), section 313 of the Coronavirus Response and Relief 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021 (division M of Public Law 116-
260; 134 Stat. 1929), and section 2001 of the American Rescue Plan Act 
of 2021 (Public Law 117-2; 20 U.S.C. 3401 note) shall be made available 
to local educational agencies to keep the elementary schools and 
secondary schools served by such agencies physically secure.
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