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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