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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="5-317" title_number="5" title_name="Financing" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="State Aid for School Construction">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “Program” means the School Safety Grant Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>There is a School Safety Grant Program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The purpose of the Program is to provide grants to county boards for school security improvements, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Secure and lockable classroom doors for each classroom in the school;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An area of safe refuge in each classroom in the school; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Surveillance and other security technology for school monitoring purposes.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Program shall be implemented and administered by the Interagency Commission, in consultation with the Maryland Center for School Safety.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The Interagency Commission shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Provide grants to county boards for public school security improvements;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Develop a procedure for a county board to apply for a grant under the Program; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Develop eligibility requirements for a county board to receive a grant under the Program.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In addition to the annual amount otherwise provided in the capital improvement program of the Public School Construction Program, the Governor shall provide an additional $10,000,000 in the annual operating or capital budget bill that may be used only to award grants under the Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The State funding provided under the Program is supplemental to and is not intended to take the place of funding that would otherwise be appropriated for public school construction purposes to a county board from any other source.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>The Interagency Commission shall adopt regulations necessary to implement this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
