# 119-hr-2752: Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025

119-hr-2752, Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Van Drew, Jefferson [R-NJ-2] (R-NJ); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-28).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-2752
- Congress: 119
- Title: Ensuring Safer Schools Act of 2025
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-04-08
- Sponsor: Rep. Van Drew, Jefferson [R-NJ-2] (R-NJ)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-10-28

## Summary

**Recruits veterans and retired officers into school resource officer roles and adds annual mental-health and student-engagement requirements.** This bill would steer COPS grant funds toward hiring and training veterans and retired law enforcement officers and set new standards for SRO programs. - Students and families: Requires SROs to meet with students at least once a year and authorizes annual mental-health screening plus annual training on tactics and response for SROs. - Veterans and retired officers: Allows COPS grant money to be used specifically to hire and train veterans and retired officers as school resource officers and creates a formal grant-selection priority for that purpose. - Schools and local governments: Lets the Attorney General provide technical help to deliver the screening and training and directs the Department of Veterans Affairs to connect veterans seeking SRO roles with local law enforcement agencies that partner with schools.

## Cosponsors (1)

- Rep. DesJarlais, Scott [R-TN-4] (R-TN), 2026-02-11T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Mental health checks and student time for school officers: benefit, low. If enacted, the Attorney General could give technical help to groups using COPS funds for school officers. That help could support a yearly mental health check and a yearly tactics and response training. Veterans and retired officers would count as covered school officers. Covered officers would ne…
- More school officer jobs for veterans: benefit, low. If enacted, local police could use COPS grants to hire and train veterans and retired officers as school resource officers. Grant applications that do this would get extra preference. The Department of Veterans Affairs would work with COPS grantees to connect interested veterans with local agencies…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7613: ALERT Act
- 119-hr-5301: PIPES Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3132: CHOICE for Veterans Act of 2025

## Sources
- [119-hr-2752 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2752)

## Related
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-1229: United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1229)
- [119-hr-7613: ALERT Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7613)
- [119-hr-5301: PIPES Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-5301)
- [119-hr-3132: CHOICE for Veterans Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3132)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-2752 (as of 2026-10-28).