[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7887 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7887

   To require the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to 
   conduct a survey of all public schools to determine the number of 
               school resource officers at such schools.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 27, 2022

  Mr. Higgins of Louisiana (for himself, Ms. Salazar, Mr. Steube, Mr. 
  Newhouse, and Mr. Gimenez) introduced the following bill; which was 
 referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Attorney General and the Secretary of Education to 
   conduct a survey of all public schools to determine the number of 
               school resource officers at such schools.

    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 ``School Resource Officer Assessment 
Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY SURVEY OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Attorney General and the Secretary of Education shall jointly conduct 
and submit to Congress, a survey of the assignment of school resource 
officers at public elementary schools and secondary schools, which 
shall include a determination of whether each such school--
            (1) on or after January 1, 2022, has been assigned a school 
        resource officer; and
            (2) in the case of a school that has been assigned such an 
        officer--
                    (A) the number of such assignments; and
                    (B) whether each such assignment is on a full-time 
                or part-time basis.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``elementary school'' and 
        ``secondary school'' have the meanings given the terms in 
        section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
        1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
            (2) School resource officer.--The term ``school resource 
        officer'' has the meaning given the term in section 1709(4) of 
        the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 
        U.S.C. 10389(4)).
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