This bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reauthorize through FY2022 the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program and modify it:
to restore authority to make COPS grants for hiring and rehiring additional career law enforcement officers, and
to specify that at least 30 percent of the amount made available for such grants must be used for school resource officers.
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Nov 30, 2018
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.