Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025
HR 2752, the Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025, amends federal grant programs to prioritize hiring veterans and retired law enforcement officers as school resource officers (SROs). The bill requires COPS grants to give preferential consideration for applications focused on recruiting these individuals, adds annual mental health screenings and training for SROs, and defines "veteran or retired law enforcement officer" for grant eligibility. It also mandates coordination between the Department of Veterans Affairs and schools to connect veterans with SRO roles. This directly affects schools receiving COPS grants, veterans seeking SRO positions, and local law enforcement agencies partnering with schools. The law changes how federal funds are administered for school safety roles, not school policies.
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Introduced Apr 8, 2025
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Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Workforce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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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Apr 8, 2025
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