Sponsors (11)
Last progress April 8, 2025 (8 months ago)
Introduced on April 8, 2025 by Ayanna Pressley
Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
This bill would stop federal money from paying for police officers in K–12 schools. Instead, it would shift support to mental health and other services that help students and improve learning, especially for students who are often pushed out of school. It bans using federal funds to hire, train, or keep police in schools across federal programs and aims to build welcoming, evidence-based, trauma‑informed supports in schools.
It creates a grant program for school districts that choose to remove police from campuses, awarded on a rolling basis. To get funding, a district must end any law‑enforcement contract and keep officers off campus during the grant, with at least 30 days’ lead time before receiving money. Funds can hire counselors, psychologists, nurses, social workers, “credible messengers,” and staff trained in de‑escalation and anti‑bias, and expand restorative justice, positive behavior supports, and social‑emotional learning. Grant dollars cannot be used for harsh discipline or police partnerships, surveillance tech like metal detectors, cameras, or facial recognition, software that monitors students’ social media, or arming teachers. Districts must publish yearly reports on how funds are used, school arrests and referrals, and any use of surveillance tools, with privacy protections; grant amounts are based on student enrollment, and the bill authorizes $5 billion for this program .
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