To require the State Board of Education to establish criteria and procedures for the awarding of bullying prevention and education funds to school districts and to make an appropriation.

Section 1.  Money may be distributed to a school district under Section 2 of this act only upon the approval of an application submitted by the district. The State Board of Education shall prescribe an application form and establish criteria for the awarding of funds and procedures for the consideration and approval of applications.

Section 2. All items in this section are hereby appropriated as designated out of any moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the designated fund. For all appropriations made in this act, those in the first column are for fiscal year 2014 and those in the second column are for fiscal year 2015. The appropriations made in this act are in addition to any other appropriations made for the FY 2014-FY 2015 biennium.

Appropriations

General Revenue Fund

BULLYING PREVENTION GRANTS

The foregoing appropriation item 200596, Bullying Prevention Grants, shall be used to distribute funds awarded under the School Bullying Prevention and Education Grant Program, which is hereby established. This program shall award grants in accordance with Sections 1 and 2 of this act to school districts for bullying prevention and education programs designed specifically for middle school students. Upon approval of an application, the funds shall be distributed based on school district enrollment as follows: (1) up to $1,000 to a district with fewer than 1,000 enrolled students, (2) up to $2,000 to a district with between 1,000 and 2,000 enrolled students, (3) up to $5,000 to a district with greater than 2,000 but fewer than 10,000 enrolled students, and (4) up to $10,000 to a district with 10,000 or more enrolled students.

Section 3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall certify to the Director of Budget and Management the aggregate amount of the grants awarded under Section 2 of this act. Upon receiving certification, the Director of Budget and Management shall transfer cash in the amount certified from the Budget Stabilization Fund to the General Revenue Fund.

Section 4. Within the limits set forth in this act, the Director of Budget and Management shall establish accounts indicating the source and amount of funds for each appropriation made in this act, and shall determine the form and manner in which appropriation accounts shall be maintained. Expenditures from appropriations contained in this act shall be accounted for as though made in Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly.

The appropriations made in this act are subject to all provisions of Am. Sub. H.B. 59 of the 130th General Assembly that are generally applicable to such appropriations.