Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2003
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Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2003 - Prohibits the Secretary of Education from making any funds available to a State under any program administered by the Department of Education unless the Secretary determines that the State has in place a criminal information sharing system.
Directs the Secretary to make such determination with regard to each State within one year after enactment of this Act.
Requires such a system to be one under which the State shares with the Federal Government information (including for non-criminal justice purposes) on each arrest, charge, or conviction (including any no contest plea) in such State for specified covered offenses. Requires such information to include the identity of: (1) each individual so arrested, charged, or convicted; and (2) the identity of each individual under suspicion for such an offense. Requires such system to cover any offense that: (1) is a felony or involves violence, a controlled substance, child abuse, statutory rape, rape, molestation, or sexual abuse; and (2) occurs on or after the date that is 15 years before the date of the enactment of this Act.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2649: Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2003. 108th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-2649/
"H.R. 2649: Schools Safely Acquiring Faculty Excellence Act of 2003." 108th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/108-HR-2649/.
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