National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025
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1Short title
This section would let the Act be officially cited as the National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025.
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025 .
2National strategy to secure schools from threats of terrorism
This section would add a new section 2220F to the Homeland Security Act of 2002. It would require the Secretary of Homeland Security, working with the Secretary of Education and the heads of other appropriate federal agencies and departments, to submit a national school security strategy within one year after enactment to four congressional committees: the House Committees on Homeland Security and on Education and Workforce, and the Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The strategy would cover elementary and secondary schools as those terms are defined in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The Secretary would have to update the strategy annually through 2033 if appropriate, and brief those same committees as necessary about any updates; in a year with no updates, the Secretary would instead submit those committees a certification stating that there were none. The strategy and any updates to it would have to do four things: account for and describe all federal programs, projects, activities, and authorities, including their spending levels, that secure elementary and secondary schools from acts of terrorism; identify specific school security vulnerabilities related to acts of terrorism within the United States and set goals for closing those vulnerabilities; describe the actions needed to reach those goals and the means to carry them out, including steps to reform, improve, and streamline existing efforts so they match the current threat environment facing elementary and secondary schools; and build on existing or ongoing evaluations, avoiding unnecessary duplication, by reviewing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of other working groups, committees, commissions, or entities that the Department of Homeland Security has established to work on securing elementary and secondary schools from terrorism and on domestic preparedness for and response to terrorism. This section would also add a line to the table of contents in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 listing this new section 2220F.
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2. National strategy to secure schools from threats of terrorism (a) 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 new section: 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 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 one year after the date of the enactment of this section, 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 the Committee on Education and 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 (in this section referred to as the strategy ). (b) Updates 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 2033 update the strategy, and brief the committees specified in subsection (a), as necessary, concerning any such updates. If there are no such updates, 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 including associated spending levels, to secure elementary and secondary schools from acts of terrorism; (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. . (b) Clerical amendment The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2220E the following new item: Sec. 2220F. National strategy to secure schools from threats of terrorism. .
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