SB 62 Summary

• Department of Education must develop materials and a model substance abuse prevention policy for schools in collaboration with organizations having expertise in school-based prevention, with the model available to schools by January 1, 2018.

• Each school corporation and charter school must develop a formal substance abuse prevention policy by July 1, 2018, addressing universal programs for all students, selective strategies for at-risk groups, and one-on-one support services.

• Establishes the school substance abuse prevention pilot program fund to provide grants for evidence-based prevention programming, embed mental health personnel in schools, and hire a research partner to conduct cost-benefit analysis of current prevention expenditures.

• Department must award grants equally among rural, suburban, and urban schools to the extent possible and submit annual reports to the governor, budget committee, and legislative council beginning November 1, 2018.

• Appropriates $300,000 from the state general fund for the biennium beginning July 1, 2017, and ending June 30, 2019, with the pilot program chapter expiring July 1, 2021.