SRO Funding Protection Act of 2024

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9754 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9754

To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require 
 maintenance of State funds for school resource officers in elementary 
         schools and secondary schools, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 2024

 Mr. Bergman (for himself, Mr. Huizenga, and Mrs. McClain) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education 
                           and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require 
 maintenance of State funds for school resource officers in elementary 
         schools and secondary schools, 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 Funding 
Protection Act of 2024'' or the ``SRO Funding Protection Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FUNDING.

    Subpart 2 of part F of title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7901 et seq.) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:

``SEC. 8549D. SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FUNDING MAINTENANCE.

    ``(a) In General.--Beginning with the first fiscal year beginning 
after the date of the enactment of this section, a State educational 
agency may receive the total amount of funds that the agency is 
eligible to receive under a program under this Act for any fiscal year 
only if the agency maintains funding for school resource officer 
programs in elementary schools and secondary schools served by the 
agency at an amount that is not less than the amount expended by the 
agency for such school resource officer programs in the most recent 
fiscal year preceding such fiscal year in which the agency, as 
applicable--
            ``(1) did not receive a waiver under subsection (c); or
            ``(2) complied with the requirements of this section.
    ``(b) Report.--A State educational agency shall, on an annual 
basis, submit to the Secretary a certification of compliance with the 
requirement under subsection (a) in such form, at such time, and 
containing such information as the Secretary may require, including a 
public report detailing, for the fiscal year in which the report is 
submitted and each of the 5 preceding fiscal years--
            ``(1) the amount of State funding for school resource 
        officer programs in elementary schools and secondary schools 
        served by the agency; and
            ``(2) the number of school resource officers working in 
        such elementary schools and secondary schools pursuant to such 
        programs.
    ``(c) Waiver.--The Secretary may waive the requirement under 
subsection (a) for a State educational agency that submits to the 
Secretary a waiver request demonstrating that extraordinary financial 
circumstances of the State resulted in a reduction in the amount of 
State funding for school resource officer programs in elementary 
schools and secondary schools served by the agency.
    ``(d) Noncompliance.--In the case of a State educational agency 
that fails to meet the requirement under subsection (a) for a fiscal 
year and does not receive a waiver under subsection (c), the Secretary 
shall, for the following fiscal year, reduce the total amount of funds 
that the agency is eligible to receive under programs under this Act in 
such following fiscal year by an amount in proportion to--
            ``(1) the amount of State funding for school resource 
        officer programs in elementary schools and secondary schools 
        served by the agency for the fiscal year in which the agency 
        fails to meet such requirement; compared to
            ``(2) the amount of such funding expended by the agency in 
        the most recent fiscal year preceding such fiscal year in which 
        the agency, as applicable--
                    ``(A) did not receive a waiver under subsection 
                (c); or
                    ``(B) complied with the requirements of this 
                section.
    ``(e) School Resource Officer Defined.--For purposes of this 
section, the term `school resource officer' has the meaning given such 
term in section 1709 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10389).''.
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