Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025 has not moved since its introduction on Apr 8, 2025, with one cosponsor, a Republican
IntroducedApr 8, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 69 words.
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.
Context
- Committees
- House Education and Workforce Committee
House Judiciary Committee
House Veterans' Affairs Committee - Policy area
- Crime and Law Enforcement: 118 of 4,553 bills became law, 113th–118th (2.6%)
- Sponsor
- 2 of 145 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 454 words
- Latest action
- 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.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
Related bills · 2
Each bill appears once, under its strongest link. 2 in all.
Related, per CRS or House · 2
- 118th H.R. 2541 Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2023 R · Introduced
- 117th H.R. 8192 Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2022 R · Introduced
Exhibit 2Articles naming the bill per day, last 90 days, US sources [3]