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HB 2145 Lottery revenues to be used for certain educational purposes.

Introduced by: Linda T. Puller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Lottery revenues to be used for certain educational purposes. Requires lottery revenues which are, in the 1999 and 2000 fiscal years pursuant to the appropriation act, appropriated for educational purposes to local school boards or localities to be designated solely for the support of one or more educational incentive programs. These educational incentive programs must be entirely voluntary pursuant to application of the local school board. The 1999/2000 appropriations must not be utilized by any local school board or governing body for meeting the local required cost of maintaining an education program meeting the prescribed Standards of Quality pursuant to Section 2 of Article VIII of the Constitution of Virginia. Therefore, as a condition of applying for and receiving these lottery funds for such voluntary educational incentive programs, local school boards and governing bodies must certify to the Board of Education that any required local match, as set forth in the appropriation act for the program, will be appropriated and that local appropriations to the relevant school board for support of the local education program in the relevant school division, regardless of whether such local funding exceeds the amount required by Section 2 of article VIII of the Constitution of Virginia, will be maintained in the local budget for the 1999 and 2000 fiscal years. This certification must verify that local appropriations for public K-12 education have not been and will not be reduced or supplanted with any lottery funds received for any voluntary educational incentive program in the 1999 and 2000 fiscal years. This bill includes an emergency clause.


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