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2005 Session

Budget Amendments - HB1500 (Committee Approved)

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Community-Based Truant Officers

Item 440 #1h

Item 440 #1h

First Year - FY2005 Second Year - FY2006
Public Safety
Juvenile Justice, Department of FY2005 $0 FY2006 $675,000 GF

Language
Page 406, line 1, strike "$19,750,799" and insert "$20,425,799".
Page 407, after line 4, insert:
"F.1.  Out of this appropriation, $675,000 the second year from the general fund shall be used to establish a pilot project in the City of Richmond to increase the number of community and school-based truancy officers to work in collaboration with the secondary schools in the City of Richmond.  The pilot project shall provide education, training, and support programming for students and their parents or guardians that will focus on and emphasize the importance of attending school regularly.  
2.  The Department of Juvenile Justice and the City of Richmond shall develop a plan that covers project implementation and objectives to be accomplished that shall include, but not be limited to, comprehensive statistical data to determine which secondary schools are to be targeted, and an action plan that details steps that will be taken to reduce the levels of truancy or absenteeism in those schools.  This plan shall be provided to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees by June 1, 2005.  In addition, the Department and the City of Richmond shall provide a project status report that includes an assessment of  the results of the program to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees by December 1, 2005."


Explanation
(This amendment provides $675,000 the second year from the general fund for a truancy prevention pilot project in the City of Richmond.)