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Committee advances three school-safety bills covering funding, cybersecurity and personnel standards
Summary
Committee passed a trio of school-security measures: a funding formula for school safety grants and training reimbursement, statewide cybersecurity standards and coordination, and personnel standards for school guardians and panic-alert devices; members asked for fiscal clarifications for LEAs.
The committee considered three linked bills from the School Safety Task Force and moved all three forward as committee bills.
Jeff Van Holten outlined the first bill as a funding formula for any future school-safety appropriation: it allocates funds to local education agencies (LEAs) and charter schools based on enrollment percentages, with a 20/80 split within the charter-share distribution and a 10% set‑aside from the top to reimburse LEAs for training costs that local law enforcement currently sometimes front. The…
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