Safer Schools Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a Justice Department pilot grant program to help public schools pay for independent security risk assessments and hard security improvements.
Who Benefits and How
Public schools could receive federal funding for security assessments, panic alarms, and other hard security improvements, especially after serious school violence events.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Justice Department would need to run the pilot program, and grant recipients would face application, matching, implementation, and reporting requirements.
Key Provisions
- Creates pilot grants for independent school facility security risk assessments.
- Creates pilot grants for hard security improvements at public schools.
- Requires grant recipient reporting and annual DOJ reporting on school physical security.
- Prioritizes schools that have experienced deadly or attempted deadly incidents.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill creates a Justice Department pilot grant program to help public schools pay for independent security risk assessments and hard security improvements.
Key Policy Areas
Education, Criminal Justice
Primary Purpose
This bill creates a Justice Department pilot grant program to help public schools pay for independent security risk assessments and hard security improvements.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Public schools eligible for security assessment and hardening grants
- Students and staff in schools receiving security improvements
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Justice Department officials administering the school security pilot program
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in …
Introduced in House
Mr. Williams of Texas (for himself and Mr. Moskowitz) introduced …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Public schools eligible for security assessment and hard security improvement grants
Students and school staff benefiting from additional physical security improvements
Justice Department officials administering and reporting on the pilot program
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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