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Strengthening Our Schools Act of 2025

H.R. 1470 · 119th Congress · Feb 21, 2025 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide funding for school resource officers, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Strengthening Our Schools Act of 2025” or the “SOS Act of 2025”.

Sec. 2 Funding for school resource officers

Section 1101(a)(11) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10261(a)(11)) is amended—
(1)
in subparagraph (A), by striking “$1,047,119,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2009” and inserting “$1,097,119,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 2035”; and
(2)
in subparagraph (B), by inserting after “of the purposes of part Q” the following: “, and not less than $50,000,000 shall be allocated for grants pursuant to applications submitted by units of local government or law enforcement agencies for the purposes described in section 1701(b)(12)”.