S 4162
117th Congress
Senate
Education
Census and government statistics
Child safety and welfare
Crime prevention
Crime victims
Crimes against children
Criminal justice information and records
Educational facilities and institutions
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency communications systems
Emergency planning and evacuation
Firearms and explosives
Government information and archives
Higher education
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Violent crime
School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 9, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 9, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act
This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to publish an annual report on indicators of school crime and safety.
The report must collect specified information, including
- the number of school shootings that have taken place nationwide and the number of those that were mass shootings;
- the number of people killed or injured in each school shooting;
- the age, gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality of each victim;
- the motivation of the shooter;
- how the shooting was stopped;
- the number and type of firearms and ammunition used in each shooting; and
- the response time of law enforcement.
ED must direct the National Center for Education Statistics to collect and publish specified data on school shootings.
The center must collect information on the existence or absence of specified measures at the time of the shooting, including physical and other types of security measures, a communication plan with local law enforcement, a response plan that includes coordination with local agencies, and an active shooter response plan.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
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