National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3472 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3472

 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the development 
   of a national strategy to secure elementary and secondary schools 
against acts of terrorism and ensure domestic preparedness for and the 
             response to terrorism, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 15, 2025

Mrs. Capito (for herself and Ms. Hassan) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the development 
   of a national strategy to secure elementary and secondary schools 
against acts of terrorism 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 2025''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL STRATEGY TO SECURE SCHOOLS FROM THREATS OF TERRORISM.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle A of title XXII of the Homeland Security 
Act of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:

``SEC. 2220F. 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 schools 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 1 year after the date of 
enactment of the National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025, the 
Secretary, in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary of 
Education and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies and 
departments, shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security and the 
Committee on Education and Workforce of the House of Representatives a 
national school security strategy (in this section referred to as the 
`strategy').
    ``(b) Updates.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary, in consultation and 
        cooperation with the Secretary of Education and the heads of 
        other appropriate Federal agencies and departments, shall, if 
        appropriate, annually through 2033, update the strategy and 
        brief the committees specified in subsection (a) concerning any 
        such update.
            ``(2) Certification.--If the Secretary determines no such 
        updates to be appropriate, the Secretary shall submit to such 
        committees a certification attesting thereto.
    ``(c) Contents.--The strategy, including any updates thereto, 
shall--
            ``(1) account for and describe all Federal programs, 
        projects, activities, and authorities to secure elementary and 
        secondary schools from acts of terrorism, including the 
        associated spending levels of such Federal programs, projects, 
        activities, and authorities;
            ``(2) identify specific school security vulnerabilities 
        related to 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 elementary and secondary schools; and
            ``(4) build upon existing or ongoing evaluations and avoid 
        unnecessary duplication by reviewing the findings, conclusions, 
        and recommendations of other appropriate working groups, 
        committees, commissions, or entities established by the 
        Department related to efforts to secure elementary and 
        secondary schools against terrorism within the United States 
        and ensure domestic preparedness for and the response to 
        terrorism.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296; 116 Stat. 2135) 
is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2220E the 
following:

``Sec. 2220F. National strategy to secure schools from threats of 
                            terrorism.''.
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