YourVoice.Now Summary
Criminal Justice & Due ProcessTargeted & Unrelated ProvisionsWould pay for armed police officers in K-12 schools, using $80 billion taken from unspent IRS funds.
Criminal Justice & Due Process
The Justice Department would give states grants to post armed officers at schools. The money could cover their pay, training, and gear, for fiscal years 2025 through 2034.
A local police force that wants the money must sign agreements with its schools. It must promise at least one full-time officer at each public or nonprofit private school in its area.
Targeted & Unrelated Provisions
The bill takes $80 billion in unspent money Congress gave the IRS in an earlier law. It moves that money to the Justice Department to pay for these grants.
More about this bill
If your child goes to a K-12 school, your state could use federal money to put an armed police officer there full time. The Justice Department would give grants to each state that chooses to take part. The money could pay for officers' wages, training, and gear. Each state's share would match its share of the nation's K-12 students. The money would come from $80 billion in unspent IRS funds from an earlier law (Public Law 117-169). Up to $8 billion a year could go out, for fiscal years 2025 through 2034. Each state's police agency would pass the money to local police. To get it, a local police force must agree to hire at least one full-time officer for every school in its area. That covers public schools and nonprofit private schools. Money a state does not use by the end of the year goes back into the pot for future grants.
Congressional Summary
School Guardian Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to make grants for states to assign armed law enforcement officers to provide security at elementary and secondary schools. The bill also requires specified unobligated Internal Revenue Service funds to be transferred to DOJ to implement this bill.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-03-27
- Date Added
- 2026-09-25
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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