Schools Want Accountability for Threats Act

HR 6055, the Schools Want Accountability for Threats Act (SWAT Act), increases penalties for threats targeting schools. It amends federal laws to add specific provisions making it a crime to threaten or spread false information about public, private, or religious schools offering early childhood through career education (as defined by state law), with penalties of up to 20 years in prison or fines. The bill applies to threats involving fire/explosives (18 U.S.C. §844), mail/interstate communications (§§875, 876), and false information (§1038). This creates a clear federal criminal penalty for individuals making such threats against qualifying schools, without changing existing school safety protocols.