83#1c (DIT) Increase Educational Television Funding. HB30 - Conference Report

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1998 Session

Budget Amendments - HB30 (Conference Report)

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Increase Educational Television Funding

Item 83 #1c

Item 83 #1c	First Year - FY1999	Second Year - FY2000
Administration
Information Technology, Department of	FY1999 $500,000	FY2000 $0	GF

Language
Page 56, line 12, strike "$3,149,050" and insert "$3,649,050".

Explanation
(This amendment increases funding for instructional programming and telecommunications service delivery to schools (K-12 grades) via public broadcasting stations.)

Item 83

Item 83	First Year - FY1999	Second Year - FY2000
Financial Assistance for Public Education (Categorical) (17100)	$3,149,050	$3,149,050
Financial Assistance for Educational Telecommunications (17111)	FY1999 $3,149,050	FY2000 $3,149,050
Fund Sources:
General	FY1999 $3,149,050	FY2000 $3,149,050

Authority: Title 2.1, Chapter 35.2, Articles 1 through 6, Code of Virginia.

Payments out of this appropriation shall be expended for instructional telecommunications payments and related services as provided by the Master Plan for Public Telecommunications. The Department of Education shall participate in the negotiations, and be a signatory to contracts for elementary and secondary instructional telecommunications.