Appropriates $650,000 for 2017-18 from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for use by REAL School Gardens to establish a three-year pilot program to create outdoor learning centers for elementary schools in the specified local school administrative units. Funds remain available for expenditure until the end of the 2019-20 fiscal year.

Directs REAL School Gardens to report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee and the Fiscal Research Division on the progress of the pilot program, an accounting of expenditures, and student outcome and teacher effectiveness data, annually from October 1, 2018 to Octoer 1, 2020.

Effective July 1, 2017.