HR 2259
Passed a chamber
Requires the Homeland Security Secretary, working with the Education Secretary, to produce a national strategy for protecting elementary and secondary schools from terrorism and to update it yearly through 2033.
Official title: National Strategy for School Security Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
21-MAR-2025
Referred
21-MAR-2025
Approved by committee
03-SEP-2025
Reported
12-NOV-2025
On the calendar
12-NOV-2025
Passed
19-NOV-2025
Senate
Received
20-NOV-2025
- Requires the strategy within one year of enactment, submitted to the House and Senate homeland security, education, and labor committees.
- Requires annual updates through 2033, or a certification to those committees in any year without an update.
- Requires the strategy to list federal school security programs and their spending, identify terrorism-related vulnerabilities, set goals to close them, and avoid duplicating existing reviews.
- Adds Section 2220F to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and updates that Act's table of contents.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (21-MAR-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 19-NOV-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Homeland Security Committee (House)
- Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee
- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)
Education
■ 5 R■ 4 D
5 Republicans