S.148: A bill to safeguard America's schools by using community policing strategies to prevent school violence and improve student and school safety.

About This Bill

  • Introduced Jan. 24, 2013
  • Latest Major Action Jan. 24, 2013

Bill Cosponsor

Bill Summary

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to make grants to local governments and Indian tribes to provide for school resource and safety officers at schools. Defines a "school resource and safety officer" as a career law enforcement officer who is assigned by the employing police department to protect schools and who works in and around schools...

(Source: Library of Congress)

Bill Actions

Date Description
Jan. 24, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan. 24, 2013

Introduced in the Senate by Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)

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