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IN SB0102
Bill
AI Summary
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Amends IC 10-21-1-2 to expand allowable uses of Indiana Secured School Fund matching grants for school corporations and charter schools
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Adds new provision permitting schools to use grant funds to "provide a response to a threat in a manner that the school corporation or charter school sees fit"
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Explicitly authorizes firearms training and other self-defense training as eligible grant expenditures
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Existing authorized uses remain: employing school resource officers, conducting threat assessments, and purchasing access restriction/first responder notification equipment
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Effective date: July 1, 2019
Legislative Description
Secured school fund. Expands the use of a matching grant from the Indiana secured school fund by a school corporation or charter school (school) to allow the school to use the matching grant to provide a response to a threat in a manner that the school sees fit, including the use of firearms training or other self-defense training.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development
1/3/2019