Establishes a school safety grant fund to support local education agencies and public charter schools in preventing and responding to school.
The bill creates a special account called the school safety grant fund within the state general fund. This fund aims to support local education agencies and public charter schools in their efforts to prevent, reduce, and respond to school shootings. The Department of Education will administer the fund, which will be composed of money appropriated by the General Assembly, along with gifts and grants. The fund will allocate grants to schools that have experienced a shooting or other firearm-related death on school grounds while students were present.
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