Sec. 2. Grants for the hiring and training of school resource officers
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The Attorney General may establish a five-year pilot program to make grants to local educational agencies to enter into partnerships with local law enforcement agencies for the hiring of school resource officers to operate in and around elementary schools and secondary schools. A grant may be made under subsection
(a)if a local educational agency submits an application to the Attorney General at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Attorney General may require. The application shall include a list of elementary schools or secondary schools in the jurisdiction of the local educational agency— that seek to use a school resource officer; at which no school resource is deployed at the time of the application; and to which a school resource officer is expected to be deployed using a grant. In making grants under subsection (a), the Attorney general may give preferential consideration, where feasible, to local educational agencies determined by the Secretary of Education to have a student population exceeding 65,000 in the jurisdiction of such local educational agency as of January 1, 2018. The amount of a grant under this section may not exceed $10,000,000 for each fiscal year. The Attorney General may make a grant under subsection
(a)only if the applicant for the grant agrees to match, from funds provided from State or local government sources, a cash amount equal to 100 percent of the grant made available by the Attorney General. In this Act: The terms elementary school , secondary school , and local educational agency have the meanings given those terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ). The term school resource officer has the meaning given the term in section 1706 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 ( 34 U.S.C. 10389 ). There are authorized to be appropriated $225,000,000 for the first fiscal year beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act, and each of the next four fiscal years thereafter.
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