118th Congress Crime and Law Enforcement
H.R. 2541: Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2023
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Summary
This bill allows funds under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant program to be used to hire and train veterans and retired law enforcement officers as school resource officers. It also directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to coordinate with COPS grant recipients to connect veterans seeking to serve as school resource officers with local law enforcement agencies participating in school-based partnerships.
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Amendments
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Cosponsors
- Garland Barr R-KYOriginal
- Don Bacon R-NEOriginal
- Dan Crenshaw R-TXOriginal
- Mario Diaz-Balart R-FLOriginal
- Mariannette Miller-Meeks R-IAOriginal
- Debbie Lesko R-AZ
- James Baird R-IN
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History
- Introduced in the House by Jefferson Van Drew.
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- Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
- Introduced in House
- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Education and the Workforce, 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.