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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6178. Mrs. CAPITO submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR SCHOOL SECURITY ACT.
(a) Short Title.—This section may be cited as the
“National Strategy for School Security Act”.
(b) National Strategy to Secure Schools From Threats of
Terrorism.—
(1) 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, 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 2034, 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.”.
(2) 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.”.