Budget Amendment ID: FY2015-S4-897

EHS 897

Healthy Relationships Grant Program

Messrs. Eldridge, Barrett and Ross, Ms. Spilka, Ms. Chandler, Messrs. Donnelly and Timilty, Ms. Candaras, Mr. Keenan, Ms. Lovely, Messrs. Rush and DiDomenico, Ms. Creem, Ms. Donoghue, Messrs. Lewis, Hedlund, Montigny, Michael O. Moore, Finegold, Welch, Joyce and McGee moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, moved that the bill be amended in section 2, by inserting after item 4513-1130 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”