Preparedness Coordination With Local Educational Agencies and School Districts Act

Preparedness Coordination With Local Educational Agencies and School Districts Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide guidance to and coordinate with local educational agencies and school districts that are at a high risk of acts of terrorism or other incidents in order to enhance domestic preparedness for and the collective response to such incidents.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5804 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5804

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Administrator 
 of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide guidance to and 
coordination with local educational agencies and school districts that 
are at high risk of acts of terrorism or other incidents, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2012

Ms. Richardson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
    Committee on Homeland Security, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Administrator 
 of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide guidance to and 
coordination with local educational agencies and school districts that 
are at high risk of acts of terrorism or other incidents, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Preparedness Coordination With Local 
Educational Agencies and School Districts Act''.

SEC. 2. GUIDANCE TO AND COORDINATION WITH LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES 
              AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

    (a) In General.--Title V of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 311 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section:

``SEC. 526. GUIDANCE TO AND COORDINATION WITH LOCAL EDUCATIONAL 
              AGENCIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

    ``To enhance domestic preparedness for and collective response to 
terrorism and other incidents, the Administrator of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency shall provide guidance to and coordinate 
with local educational agencies and school districts that are at a high 
risk of acts of terrorism or other incidents.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 101(b)) is amended by 
adding after the item relating to section 525 the following new item:

``Sec. 526. Guidance to and coordination with local educational 
                            agencies and school districts.''.
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