Secure Communities and Safe Schools Act

Secure Communities and Safe Schools Act

This bill prohibits the expenditure of funds under the Urban Area Security Initiative or the State Homeland Security Grant Program (i.e., programs that provide grants to prevent, prepare for, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism) for the purchase of firearms or firearms accessories, such as ammunition, including for use by teachers.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2383 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2383

To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to prohibit the expenditure 
  of certain grant funds to purchase firearms, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 2019

Mrs. Demings (for herself, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, and Mr. Payne) 
 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 prohibit the expenditure 
  of certain grant funds to purchase firearms, 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 Communities and Safe Schools 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON EXPENDITURE OF CERTAIN HOMELAND SECURITY GRANT 
              FUNDS TO PURCHASE FIREARMS.

    Subsection (b) of section 2008 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 609) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(6) Firearms.--A grant awarded under section 2003 or 2004 
        may not be used to purchase firearms or firearms accessories, 
        such as ammunition, including for use by teachers.''.
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