To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to allow for increased use of school resource officers by local educational agencies.

Amends the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 (which is title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) to allow local educational agencies to use all of specified funds they receive for comprehensive local drug and violence prevention programs to establish school-based partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and local school systems by using school resource officers (career law enforcement officers) who operate in and around elementary and secondary schools to combat school-related crime and disorder problems, gangs, and drug activities.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1231 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1231

To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to 
     allow for increased use of school resource officers by local 
                         educational agencies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2001

     Ms. Dunn (for herself, Mr. Smith of Washington, and Mr. Wamp) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994 to 
     allow for increased use of school resource officers by local 
                         educational agencies.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO THE SAFE AND DRUG-FREE SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES 
              ACT OF 1994.

    Section 4116(c) of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities 
Act of 1994 (20 U.S.C. 7116(c)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(c) Authority To Use School Resource Officers.--
            ``(1) In general.--In meeting the program requirements 
        under subsection (a), a local educational agency may use up to 
        100 percent of the amount of funds that it receives under this 
        subpart for a fiscal year to establish and operate school-based 
        partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and local 
        school systems by using school resource officers who operate in 
        and around elementary and secondary schools to combat school-
        related crime and disorder problems, gangs, and drug 
        activities.
            ``(2) Definition.--In this subsection, the term `school 
        resource officer' has the meaning given the term in section 
        1709(4) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
        1968.''.
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