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H.R. 1299119th CongressIn committeeLatest action Feb 13, 2025Decoded by AI · checked against the record
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The EAGLES Act funds a Secret Service school safety program that trains schools, law enforcement, and mental health workers to prevent targeted violence.
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This bill continues and strengthens a Secret Service program called the National Threat Assessment Center, which studies and helps prevent targeted violence in schools and other public places. The Center would build a national school safety program that conducts research, develops training courses, and shares best practices. None of the funding may be used to train anyone in the use of a firearm.
The program primarily serves K–12 schools, school districts, local law enforcement agencies, and mental health professionals. The Secret Service would also be allowed to hire additional staff with expertise in child psychology and school threat assessment.
Without this bill, the National Threat Assessment Center would not have a formal mandate or dedicated funding to run a national school safety program. Schools, law enforcement, and mental health professionals in every state would have less access to research, training, and shared best practices on preventing targeted violence.
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Right now: a House committee is reviewing it. If the Senate changes it, it goes back to the House before reaching the President.
Latest action: — Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and 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.