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Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025
To prioritize the hiring and training of veterans and retired law enforcement officers as school resource officers, and for other purposes.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To President
- Became law
Summary
Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Apr 8, 2025 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.
- Apr 8, 2025 Introduced in House
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