Amendment #410 to H4000

Healthy Relationships Grant Program

Representatives Peisch of Wellesley and Conroy of Wayland move to amend the bill in section 2 by adding the following item:

“xxxx-xxxx For a competitive grant program in public schools from grades 5 through 12 that will promote healthy relationships and address teen dating violence; provided, that the department of elementary and secondary education shall develop a 3 year grant program for 10 schools on anti-teen dating violence programming for implementation for the school year beginning in 2015; provided further, that the grant program shall be for schools in which the majority of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch; and provided further, that at least 1 grantee shall be a school located in a municipality with a population of 25,000 or less……………...............................…………$150,000”