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| 3 | 3 | | EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MAT TER ADDED TO EXISTIN G LAW. |
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| 4 | 4 | | [Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. |
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| 5 | 5 | | *hb0157* |
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| 7 | 7 | | HOUSE BILL 157 |
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| 8 | 8 | | F1 5lr1448 |
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| 9 | 9 | | (PRE–FILED) CF SB 136 |
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| 10 | 10 | | By: Delegate Griffith |
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| 11 | 11 | | Requested: October 29, 2024 |
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| 12 | 12 | | Introduced and read first time: January 8, 2025 |
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| 13 | 13 | | Assigned to: Appropriations |
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| 14 | 14 | | |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL ENTITLED |
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| 17 | 17 | | AN ACT concerning 1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | |
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| 19 | 19 | | Education – Safe Schools Fund – Grant Allocations 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | FOR the purpose of authorizing the reallocation of grants from the Safe Schools Fund to 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | local school systems that have fully expended their grant allocation and demonstrate 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | unmet need within the same fiscal year; and generally relating to Safe Schools Fund 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | grant allocations. 6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | BY repealing and reenacting, without amendments, 7 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Article – Education 8 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 7–1501(a) and (f) 9 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 10 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 11 |
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| 32 | 32 | | BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 12 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Article – Education 13 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Section 7–1508(g) 14 |
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| 35 | 35 | | Annotated Code of Maryland 15 |
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| 36 | 36 | | (2022 Replacement Volume and 2024 Supplement) 16 |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 17 |
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| 39 | 39 | | That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 18 |
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| 41 | 41 | | Article – Education 19 |
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| 43 | 43 | | 7–1501. 20 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated. 21 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (f) “Fund” means the Safe Schools Fund. 22 |
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| 48 | 48 | | 2 HOUSE BILL 157 |
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| 51 | 51 | | 7–1508. 1 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (g) (1) For fiscal year 2020 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Governor shall 2 |
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| 54 | 54 | | include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of $10,000,000 to the Fund for the 3 |
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| 55 | 55 | | purpose of providing grants to local school systems and local law enforcement agencies to 4 |
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| 56 | 56 | | assist in meeting the requirements of subsection (e) of this section. 5 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (2) Grants provided under this subsection [shall]: 6 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (I) SHALL be made to each local school system based on the number 7 |
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| 61 | 61 | | of schools in each school system in proportion to the total number of public schools in the 8 |
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| 62 | 62 | | State in the prior year; AND 9 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (II) MAY BE REALLOCATED TO LOCAL SCHOOL SYST EMS THAT 10 |
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| 65 | 65 | | HAVE FULLY EXPENDED THEIR ALLOCATION AND DEMONSTRATE NEED WITHIN THE 11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | SAME FISCAL YEAR . 12 |
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| 68 | 68 | | SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 13 |
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| 69 | 69 | | 1, 2025. 14 |
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