National Strategy for School Security Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7414 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7414

  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

                           February 20, 2024

Mr. Tony Gonzales of Texas (for himself and Mr. Gottheimer) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Homeland 
                                Security

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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 2024''.

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 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 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;
            (2) identify specific school security vulnerabilities from 
        acts of terrorism 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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