SB 6740 - DIGEST

Requires the superintendent of public instruction to create a pilot project for selected school districts to identify instructional materials and resources for parents and teachers to use to provide instruction designed to prevent the abduction of children. School districts shall be selected to participate so that instructional materials and resources are identified for each grade level of kindergarten through eighth grade.

Requires that, by May 1, 2004, the superintendent shall disseminate to all school districts in the state information about the availability of the grants and the procedure for obtaining the grants.

Requires that, by October 1, 2005, the superintendent shall disseminate to all school districts in the state the list of instructional materials and resources to aid in the prevention of child abduction that were recommended by the school districts participating in the pilot project.

Appropriates the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, from the general fund to the office of the superintendent of public instruction for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2005, to carry out the pilot project created in this act.