1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Campus Fire Safety Education Act of 2017 . 2. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to help provide fire safety education and training to students attending institutions of higher education. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Administrator The term Administrator means the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (2) Eligible entity The term eligible entity means an institution of higher education, or a consortium of institutions of higher education located in the same State, in a collaborative partnership with a nonprofit organization or a public safety department. Such a collaborative partnership may also include a social fraternity or sorority exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the active membership of which consists primarily of students enrolled at the institution or institutions. (3) Fire safety education program The term fire safety education program means a program that provides fire safety and prevention activities. (4) Institution of higher education The term institution of higher education has the meaning given to such term in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 ). (5) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Education. 4. Establishment of the campus fire safety education competitive grant program (a) Authorization of grant program From the amounts appropriated under section 7, the Secretary, in consultation with the Administrator, shall establish a grant program to award grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible entities for— (1) initiating, expanding, or improving fire safety education programs at institutions of higher education