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Budget Amendments - SB30 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Norment
State Aid to Libraries -- Summer Reading & STEAM Materials

Item 238 #1s

Item 238 #1s

First Year - FY2019 Second Year - FY2020
Education
The Library Of Virginia FY2019 $2,500,000 FY2020 $2,500,000 GF

Language
Page 202, line 18, strike "$16,233,584" and insert "$18,733,584".
Page 202, line 18, strike "$16,233,584" and insert "$18,733,584".

Page 202, after line 32, insert: "Out of this appropriation, $2,500,000 each year from the general fund may be used for summer reading materials and programs or for STEAM instructional materials.".



Explanation

(This amendment provides $2.5 million from the general fund in each year of the biennium for state aid to local public libraries that may be used for either summer reading materials and programs or for STEAM instructional materials. Students who participate in summer reading programs have been documented to outperform non-participating peers in literacy fundamentals in grades K-12 and the SOLs for grades 3-12. Students participating in summer reading programs also outperformed their peers who did not participate in these programs in tests given after summer break. State aid to Local Public Libraries has been reduced by more than $4.7 million since FY 2001 to only $200,000 more than the FY 1999 level)