A bill to allow funds under title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to be used to provide training to school personnel regarding how to recognize child sexual abuse.

Helping Schools Protect Our Children Act of 2012 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to include training of school personnel to recognize child sexual abuse among the uses of grants to states and subgrants to local educational agencies and partnerships under part A (Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund) of title II.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3173 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3173

To allow funds under title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
    Act of 1965 to be used to provide training to school personnel 
             regarding how to recognize child sexual abuse.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 14, 2012

     Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Mr. Kyl, Mrs. Hutchison, and Mr. 
  Lautenberg) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To allow funds under title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
    Act of 1965 to be used to provide training to school personnel 
             regarding how to recognize child sexual abuse.

    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 ``Helping Schools Protect Our Children 
Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. TRAINING TEACHERS TO RECOGNIZE CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.

    (a) State Activities.--Section 2113(c) of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6613(c)) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(19) Providing training for all school personnel, 
        including teachers, principals, and pupil services personnel, 
        regarding how to recognize child sexual abuse.''.
    (b) Local Educational Agency Activities.--Section 2123(a) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6623(a)) is 
amended by inserting after paragraph (8) the following:
            ``(9) Providing training for all school personnel, 
        including teachers, principals, and pupil services personnel, 
        regarding how to recognize child sexual abuse.''.
    (c) Eligible Partnership Activities.--Subpart III of part A of 
title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 6631 et seq.) is amended--
            (1) in section 2132(a), by striking ``the activities'' and 
        inserting ``activities''; and
            (2) in section 2134(a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``and'' after 
                the semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(C), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) providing training for school personnel, including 
        teachers, principals, and pupil services personnel, regarding 
        how to recognize child sexual abuse.''.
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