# School Guardian Act of 2025 - Plain Language Summary

## What This Bill Does

The School Guardian Act of 2025 creates a federal grant program to fund armed law enforcement officers in elementary and secondary schools across the United States. Under this bill, the federal government would provide money to states, which would then distribute it to local law enforcement agencies. These agencies would use the funds to hire and deploy full-time armed police officers to work as security personnel in K-12 schools.

## Who Benefits and Who Is Affected

**States and local law enforcement agencies** would receive federal funding to hire officers. **Schools** would gain armed security presence on campus. **Students, teachers, and school staff** would be the primary population affected by the increased police presence in schools. The bill requires that each school in a participating jurisdiction have at least one full-time armed officer assigned to it.

## Key Provisions

- **Funding**: The bill allocates $80 billion in unobligated IRS funds, with up to $8 billion available annually through 2034
- **Distribution**: Grants are distributed to states based on their student population, then distributed to local law enforcement agencies
- **Requirements**: Law enforcement agencies must sign written agreements with schools specifying how many officers they'll hire and assign
- **Reporting**: States must report to the Attorney General on how many officers were hired and which schools received them
- **Unused funds**: Any money not spent in a fiscal year must be returned to the federal government