REVISE SCHOOL SAFETY GRANT PROGRAM.

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 832 (Public) Filed Tuesday, April 8, 2025
AN ACT TO REVISE THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH SCHOOL SAFETY GRANTS PROGRAM FUNDS MAY BE USED.
Intro. by Blackwell, Campbell, Cunningham, Wheatley.

Status: Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate action) (May 5 2025)
H 832

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Apr 8 2025 - View Summary

    Amends Section 7.36 of SL 2023-134, as amended, which establishes grants to public schools for training to increase school safety as follows. Expands the covered services that can be funded by the grants to include violence prevention and developing personal and interpersonal skills, in addition to the already included community resilience modules, and expands upon the purposes of those modalities to include: (1) enhancing individual level protective factors and (2) mitigating or reducing risk-taking or harmful behavior. Allows funds to be used to cover training or programming education on personal and interpersonal skills or character education and education or training addressing violence prevention and suicide prevention.