HB0001H3031

This amendment adds a new $5,000,000 appropriation from the public school foundation program account to establish a competitive grant program reimbursing school districts for employing school resource officers in school year 2025-2026.

• Creates a new Section 351 establishing a school district competitive grant program that appropriates $5,000,000 from the public school foundation program account to reimburse school districts for the cost of employing up to one school resource officer per district for school year 2025-2026. Reimbursements are capped at the actual amount expended by each district and are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis if applications exceed available funds. The appropriation is in addition to and does not affect the district's foundation program amount under the education resource block grant model. (Page 84, after line 15)Agency: Education-School Finance · $5,000,000 Public School Foundation Program Account
• Directs the state superintendent of public instruction to promulgate rules necessary to implement the school resource officer grant program. (Page 84, lines 24-25)
• Establishes legislative intent that this appropriation not be included in the education-school finance's standard budget for the immediately succeeding fiscal biennium. (Page 84, lines 27-29)

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