1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Teacher Victims’ Family Assistance Act of 2019 . I Definitions 101. Definitions In this title: (1) Cost of attendance The term cost of attendance has the meaning given that term in section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087ll ). (2) Dependent child The term dependent child means a son or daughter of the victim (whether natural or adopted) who is under 25 years old. (3) ESEA terms The terms elementary school and secondary school have the meanings given such terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ). (4) Institution of higher education The term institution of higher education has the meaning given that term in section 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1002 ). (5) Surviving spouse The term surviving spouse means the spouse of the victim, as determined under applicable State law, at the time of the victim’s death. (6) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Education. (7) Victim The term victim means a teacher, administrator, employee, or paid or unpaid staff member of an elementary school or secondary school who was killed by another person as a result of an act of violence while performing duties as such teacher, administrator, employee, or staff member, without regard to whether such performance takes place before, during, or after the school day or on or off school grounds. 102. Death benefit, funeral assistance, and living allowance for families of victims In any case in which the Secretary of Education determines that a teacher, administrator, employee, or paid or unpaid staff member meets the definition of victim, the Secretary shall— (1) pay a death benefit of $325,000 and a separate payment of not more than $1,500 to be used for funeral expenses, as follows (if the payee indicated is living on the date on which the determination is made)— (A) if there is no dependent child who survived the victim, to the surviving spouse of the victim