Bill Details
HR.1470 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-21 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-02-21
Policy Area
Crime and Law Enforcement
Committees
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Cosponsors
6
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This bill would increase federal funding for school resource officers and related school safety grants. It updates an older crime-prevention law to set aside more money for these programs from 2026 through 2035, with a specific requirement that at least $50 million each year go to grants for local governments or law enforcement agencies that want to hire or support school resource officers.
- Raises the yearly funding amount in the law from the old level to $1,097,119,000 for fiscal years 2026 through 2035.
- Requires at least $50 million to be used for grants connected to school resource officer programs.
- These grants could be applied for by local governments or law enforcement agencies.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1470 Introduced in House (IH)]
<DOC>
119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1470
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to
provide funding for school resource officers, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 21, 2025
Mr. Gottheimer (for himself, Mr. Moskowitz, and Mr. Davis of North
Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to
provide funding for school resource officers, 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 ``Strengthening Our Schools Act of
2025'' or the ``SOS Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS.
Section 1101(a)(11) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10261(a)(11)) is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``$1,047,119,000 for
each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009'' and inserting
``$1,097,119,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2035'';
and
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting after ``of the
purposes of part Q'' the following: ``, and not less than
$50,000,000 shall be allocated for grants pursuant to
applications submitted by units of local government or law
enforcement agencies for the purposes described in section
1701(b)(12)''.
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