Make Schools Safer Act

Make Schools Safer Act

This bill directs the Institute of Education Sciences to make available to elementary and secondary school officials, including school counselors, rigorous research for improving school safety.

Such research may include best practices for: (1) educating appropriate school personnel on techniques for identifying students who may pose a violent threat; and (2) collaborating with health care professionals, state and local law enforcement, youth organizations, and parents.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6798 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6798

To require the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences to make 
  available to elementary and secondary school officials research for 
            improving school safety, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 13, 2018

Mr. Byrne (for himself and Mrs. Handel) introduced the following bill; 
   which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences to make 
  available to elementary and secondary school officials research for 
            improving school safety, 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 ``Make Schools Safer Act''.

SEC. 2. DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH ON BEST PRACTICES TO IMPROVE SCHOOL 
              SAFETY.

    (a) In General.--The Director of the Institute of Education 
Sciences shall make available to elementary school and secondary school 
officials, including school counselors, rigorous research, as 
determined by the Director, for improving school safety, which may 
include identifying best practices for--
            (1) educating appropriate school personnel on techniques 
        for identifying students who may pose a violent threat; and
            (2) collaborating, as appropriate, with health care 
        professionals, State and local law enforcement, youth 
        organizations, and parents to implement procedures for--
                    (A) early identification of students at risk of 
                committing violence, including those who may have 
                mental illness;
                    (B) use of crisis response systems;
                    (C) use of referral mechanisms for mental health 
                and other treatment services; and
                    (D) designing interventions for students described 
                in subparagraph (A).
    (b) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be constructed to 
authorize advocacy or promotion of gun control.
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