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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1470
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to
provide funding for school resource officers, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY21, 2025
Mr. G
OTTHEIMER(for himself, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, and Mr. DAVISof North
Carolina) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets
Act of 1968 to provide funding for school resource offi-
cers, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Strengthening Our 4
Schools Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘SOS Act of 2025’’. 5
SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS. 6
Section 1101(a)(11) of the Omnibus Crime Control 7
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10261(a)(11)) 8
is amended— 9
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(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking 1
‘‘$1,047,119,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 2
through 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘$1,097,119,000 for 3
each of fiscal years 2026 through 2035’’; and 4
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting after ‘‘of 5
the purposes of part Q’’ the following: ‘‘, and not 6
less than $50,000,000 shall be allocated for grants 7
pursuant to applications submitted by units of local 8
government or law enforcement agencies for the pur-9
poses described in section 1701(b)(12)’’. 10
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