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2020 Indiana Code
Title 10. Public Safety
Article 21. School Safety
Chapter 1. School Safety
10-21-1-4-b. Matching Grants for School Safety

Universal Citation:
IN Code § 10-21-1-4-b (2020)
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     Note: This version of section amended by P.L.50-2019, SEC.4, effective 7-1-2019. See also preceding version of this section amended by P.L.197-2019, SEC.5, effective 5-2-2019, and following version of this section amended by P.L.153-2019, SEC.2, effective 7-1-2019.

Sec. 4. (a) The board may award a matching grant to enable a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school (or a coalition of schools applying jointly) to establish a program to employ a school resource officer, provide school resource officer training described in IC 20-26-18.2-1(b)(2), conduct a threat assessment, or purchase equipment to restrict access to the school or expedite the notification of first responders in accordance with section 2(a)(1) of this chapter.

(b) A matching grant awarded to a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school (or a coalition of schools applying jointly) may not exceed the lesser of the following during a two (2) year period beginning on or after May 1, 2013:

(1) The total cost of the program established by the school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school (or the coalition of schools applying jointly).

(2) The following amounts:

(A) Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per year, in the case of a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school that:

(i) has an ADM of at least one thousand (1,000); and

(ii) is not applying jointly with any other school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school.

(B) Thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) per year, in the case of a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school that:

(i) has an ADM of less than one thousand (1,000); and

(ii) is not applying jointly with any other school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school.

(C) Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per year, in the case of a coalition of schools applying jointly.

(c) A school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school may receive only one (1) matching grant under this section each year.

(d) The board may not award a grant to a school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school under this section unless the school corporation, charter school, or accredited nonpublic school is in a county that has a county school safety commission, as described in IC 5-2-10.1-10.

As added by P.L.172-2013, SEC.6. Amended by P.L.30-2014, SEC.1; P.L.50-2019, SEC.4.

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