National Strategy for School Security Act of 2017

National Strategy for School Security Act of 2017

This bill requires the Department Homeland Security, in order to assist in the domestic preparedness for and response to acts of terrorism and other emergencies and to coordinate federal efforts to secure elementary and secondary schools, to develop and submit to Congress a national school security strategy and updates to such strategy.

The strategy shall:

• describe all federal programs, projects, and activities to secure elementary and secondary schools from acts of terrorism and other emergencies;
• identify specific school security vulnerabilities to acts of terrorism or other emergencies within the United States and delineate goals for closing such vulnerabilities;
• describe actions to be taken and means needed to achieve such goals, including steps to reform, improve, and streamline existing efforts to align the current threat environment to schools; and
• identify new authorities or changes in existing authorities required to address school security.

The requirement to transmit updated national strategies shall terminate seven years after this bill's enactment.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2109 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2109

  To require the development of a national strategy to secure schools 
against terrorism nationwide, and ensure domestic preparedness for and 
           the response to terrorism, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 20, 2017

  Mr. Messer 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 require the development of a national strategy to secure schools 
against terrorism nationwide, and ensure domestic preparedness for and 
           the response to terrorism, 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 ``National Strategy for School 
Security Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL STRATEGY TO SECURE SCHOOLS FROM THREATS OF TERRORISM.

    (a) In General.--To assist in the domestic preparedness for and 
response to acts of terrorism and other emergencies and to coordinate 
Federal efforts to secure elementary and secondary schools (as such 
terms are defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)), not later than 180 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary of 
Education and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies and 
departments, shall develop and submit to the Committee on Homeland 
Security, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of 
the Senate a national school security strategy including, as 
appropriate, updates to such strategy.
    (b) Contents.--The strategy required under subsection (a) shall--
            (1) account and describe all Federal programs, projects, 
        and activities, including spending levels, to secure elementary 
        and secondary schools from acts of terrorism and other 
        emergencies;
            (2) identify specific school security vulnerabilities from 
        acts of terrorism or other emergencies within the United 
        States, and delineate goals for closing such security 
        vulnerabilities;
            (3) describe actions to be taken to achieve such goals and 
        the means necessary to do so, including steps to reform, 
        improve, and streamline existing efforts to align the current 
        threat environment to schools; and
            (4) identify new authorities or changes in existing 
        authorities required to address school security.
    (c) Sunset.--The requirement to transmit updated national 
strategies under this section shall terminate on the date that is seven 
years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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