School Safety Enhancements Act of 2013

School Safety Enhancements Act of 2013 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize school security grants by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to be used for the installation of surveillance equipment and the establishment of hotlines or tiplines for the reporting of potentially dangerous students and situations.

Requires the Office Director: (1) in collaboration with the Secretary of Education, to establish an interagency task force to develop a set of advisory school safety guidelines; and (2) to consider such guidelines in determining permissible uses of school security grant funds.

Requires a grant application to be accompanied by a report that is 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 that demonstrates that each proposed use of the grant funds will be: (1) an effective means for improving school safety, (2) consistent with a comprehensive approach to preventing school violence, and (3) individualized to the needs of each school.

Authorizes appropriations for such grant program for FY2014-FY2023.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1470 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1470

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
                enhance the safety of America's schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2013

  Mrs. Capps introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 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 
2013''.

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.''; 
        and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(g) Interagency Task Force.--
            ``(1) Establishment.--Not later than 60 days after the date 
        of enactment of this subsection, the Director, in collaboration 
        with the Secretary of Education, shall establish an interagency 
        task force to develop a set of advisory school safety 
        guidelines.
            ``(2) Publication of guidelines.--Not later than one year 
        after the date of enactment of this subsection, the interagency 
        task force shall publish the advisory school safety guidelines 
        developed under paragraph (1) in the Federal Register.
            ``(3) Required consultation.--In developing the advisory 
        school safety guidelines under paragraph (1), the interagency 
        task force shall consult with stakeholders and interested 
        parties, including parents, teachers, and agencies.
            ``(4) Use of guidelines.--In determining permissible uses 
        of funds under subsection (b)(6), the Director shall consider 
        the advisory school safety guidelines developed under paragraph 
        (1).''.

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 of 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 one 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 
        ``$40,000,000''; and
            (2) by striking ``2001 through 2009'' and inserting ``2014 
        through 2023''.
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