Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-903

EHS 903

Healthy Relationships Grant Program

Messrs. Eldridge, Barrett, Ross and Keenan, Ms. Donoghue, Messrs. Brownsberger, Welch, Moore, McGee, Lewis and Joyce, Ms. Lovely and Mr. Montigny moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting after 4513-1130 the following item:- “4513-1131 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 2016; 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”