School Resource Officer Act of 2018

School Resource Officer Act of 2018

This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize through FY2022 the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program and modify it:

• to restore authority to make COPS grants for hiring and rehiring additional career law enforcement officers, and
• to specify that at least 30 percent of the amount made available for such grants must be used for school resource officers.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7209 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7209

  To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
  require a certain percentage of COPS grant funds to be used for the 
   salaries and benefits of school resource officers, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 30, 2018

Mr. Mitchell (for himself, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Rutherford, Mr. 
Smucker, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Lawson of Florida) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in 
addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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 Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
  require a certain percentage of COPS grant funds to be used for the 
   salaries and benefits of school resource officers, 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 ``School Resource Officer Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) a school resource officer program provides a safe 
        learning environment in our Nation's schools, provides valuable 
        resources to school staff members, and fosters positive 
        relationships between youth and law enforcement;
            (2) school resource officers are educators, informal 
        counselors and mentors, and law enforcement officers;
            (3) local agencies need the resources and flexibility to 
        establish school resource officer programs that will encourage 
        partnerships between schools and local law enforcement agencies 
        to develop innovative ways to make schools safe; and
            (4) Federal grants for school resource officer salaries are 
        intended to be a starting point for continued local action and 
        should not divert current designated funding.

SEC. 3. FUNDING FOR COPS IN SCHOOLS.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 1001(a)(11)(A) of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 
10261(a)(11)(A)) is amended by inserting before the period at the end 
the following: ``, and $300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 
through 2022''.
    (b) Repeal Termination of Grants for Hiring Officers.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1701(i) of the Omnibus Crime 
        Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10381(i)) is 
        repealed.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 1701(j)(1) of the 
        Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 
        10381(j)(1)) is amended by striking ``subsection (i) and''.
    (c) School Resource Officer Funding.--Section 1704 of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10384) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (c), by striking ``$75,000'' and 
        inserting ``$125,000''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) School Resource Officers Set Aside.--Not less than 30 percent 
of the amount made available for hiring and rehiring additional career 
law enforcement officers shall be made available for the salaries and 
benefits of the school resource officers hired pursuant to a 
partnership described in section 1701(b)(12).''.
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