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The bill funds a multi‑year, evidence-based federal program to expand school threat assessment, training, and multiagency prevention supports — improving early intervention and coordination — while raising significant privacy, stigmatization, criminalization, and cost concerns and offering only temporary funding unless reauthorized.
Students, teachers, and school staff in K–12 will gain standardized, evidence-based training, resources, and age-appropriate interventions to identify and address concerning behavior early, reducing the risk of targeted school violence.
Local schools, law enforcement, mental-health professionals, and local governments can coordinate using NTAC-established protocols and expert consultation to improve threat identification, case management, and prevention of targeted violence.
A federally funded program ($10M/year for FY2026–FY2030) will create sustained coordination, including dedicated personnel with child-development and school-threat assessment expertise, to support states, territories, and local educational agencies.
Students — including those with disabilities — may face increased monitoring, reduced privacy, and constrained due process as schools implement threat assessments and follow federal guidance.
Expanded information sharing and school-based threat-assessment practices could increase referrals to law enforcement and risk criminalizing students, with disproportionate impacts on racial and ethnic minority youth.
Behavioral and mental-health assessments risk stigmatizing students with mental-health needs, potentially discouraging them from seeking help.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Introduced February 13, 2025 by Charles Ernest Grassley · Last progress February 13, 2025
Creates a permanent National Threat Assessment Center within the U.S. Secret Service, housed at the Department of Homeland Security, to lead research, training, consultation, and information sharing to prevent targeted violence—especially in K–12 schools. The Center must stand up a national school violence prevention program, develop and deliver training and resources to every state, hire experts in child development and school threat assessment, report results to Congress, and is authorized $10 million per year for FY2026–FY2030; the authority sunsets September 30, 2030.