Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary STATE GOVERNMENTREVENUESchool Safety Grant FundFY25-26$10,000,000 EXPENDITURESGeneral FundFY25-26$10,010,000 OTHER FISCAL IMPACT The timing and amount of disbursements from the School Safety Grant Fund to local education agencies and public charter schools is unknown. Bill Summary This bill creates within the state general fund a special account to be known as the school safety grant fund, the purpose of which is to support local education agencies (LEAs) and public charter schools with prevention, reduction, and response efforts with regard to school shootings. The department of education ("department") must administer the fund, which is composed of money appropriated by the general assembly for the fund, and gifts, grants, and other donations received by the department for the fund. DISTRIBUTION OF GRANTS Subject to the availability of funds, this bill requires the department to allocate and disperse grants to LEAs and public charter schools that have had a shooting or other firearm-related death on school grounds on a school day while students were present. The department must establish and publish guidelines for applications, including eligibility, and the award of grants. Priority for grants must be given to schools based on an evaluation of need, including the availability of school resource officers, the number of firearm-related incidents in the past two school years, and the financial resources of the LEA or public charter school. ANNUAL REPORT This bill requires the department to submit an annual report to the education and finance, ways and means committees of the senate and the committees of the house of representatives with jurisdiction over budget-related matters and primary and secondary education-related matters by March 1 of each year on the status of this program and the allocation o
