SAFE in Our Schools Act

Secure America for Education in Our Schools Act or the SAFE in Our Schools Act - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to require that each state include in its application for funds under the Homeland Security Grant Program a certification that the state requires each institution of education for kindergarten through 12th grade to develop an emergency response plan that includes provisions for evacuation relocation, family-child reunification, children with special needs, and addressing multiple disasters by the earlier of the beginning of the academic year for 2015 or September 1, 2015.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3158 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3158

  To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require recipients of 
 State Homeland Security Grant Program funding to promote preparedness 
     and planning for manmade and natural disasters at educational 
                 institutions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 20, 2013

Mr. Payne (for himself and Mr. Thompson of Mississippi) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require recipients of 
 State Homeland Security Grant Program funding to promote preparedness 
     and planning for manmade and natural disasters at educational 
                 institutions, 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 ``Secure America for Education in Our 
Schools Act'' or the ``SAFE in Our Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM CONTENTS OF APPLICATION FOR CERTAIN HOMELAND SECURITY 
              GRANT FUNDS.

    Section 2004(b)(2) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 
605(b)(2)) is amended by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
paragraphs (C) and (D), respectively, and by inserting after 
subparagraph (A) the following:
                    ``(B) a certification that--
                            ``(i) the State requires each institution 
                        of education for kindergarten through twelfth 
                        grade to develop an emergency response plan 
                        that includes provisions for--
                                    ``(I) evacuation relocation;
                                    ``(II) family-child reunification;
                                    ``(III) children with special 
                                needs; and
                                    ``(IV) addressing multiple 
                                disasters; and
                            ``(ii) the State has adopted a strategy to 
                        ensure that each such institution develops a 
                        plan in accordance with clause (i) by the 
                        beginning of the academic year for 2015 or 
                        September 1, 2015, whichever is earlier;''.
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