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                                 SENATE BILL 5252

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Saling, Murray, Johnson, Skratek, Metcalf, A. Smith, L. Smith, Rinehart, von Reichbauer, Talmadge, Moore, Craswell, Gaspard, Thorsness, Sellar, McCaslin, Wojahn and Pelz.

Read first time January 24, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Education.Funding school building security monitors.

     AN ACT Relating to security in schools; and making an appropriation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The sum of three million three hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1993, from the general fund to the superintendent of public instruction for matching grants to enhance security in secondary schools.  School districts that apply for such grants shall ensure that no more than seventy-five percent of the district's total expenditures for school security in any school year are supported by the grant amounts.  The grants shall be expended solely for the costs of employing or contracting for building security monitors in middle and secondary schools during school hours and school events, including the costs of equipment and supplies involved in the employment or contract.  Of the amount appropriated in this section, a minimum of two million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars is provided for grants to districts that, during the 1988-89 school year, employed or contracted for security monitors in schools during school hours.

     It is the intent of the legislature that grants provided to school districts from appropriations under this section do not meet the criteria for levy reduction funds under RCW 84.52.0531 and shall not be deemed to be levy reduction funds.