Pupil health: School-Based Pupil Support Services Program Act.

The Healthy Start Support Services for Children Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award grants to local educational agencies or consortia to fund programs in qualifying schools that provide support services, which include case-managed health, mental health, social, and academic support services, to eligible pupils and their families. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would increase in-school support services to pupils in order to break down barriers to academic success. The bill would enact the School-Based Pupil Support Services Program Act, under which grants would be awarded by the State Department of Education to local educational agencies (LEAs) , as defined, or consortia of LEAs. The bill would specify that recipient LEAs and consortia would provide $1 of matching funds for each $4 of grant funds received. The bill would authorize 2 types of grants: planning grants and operational grants. The bill would require planning grants to be used by LEAs, on behalf of qualified schools, as defined, for planning and coordination activities relating to specified support services. The bill would require operational grants to be used by qualifying schools sponsored by LEAs or by consortia of LEAs for, among other purposes, increasing the presence of school health professionals, as defined, at schoolsites and providing programs that prevent and reduce substance abuse among pupils. The bill would require the source of the state funding for the grants awarded under the program to be an appropriation from the Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention and Treatment Account established pursuant to the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Proposition 64, as approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election) . The appropriation would be made to the State Department of Health Care Services, for transfer to the State Department of Education, in accordance with a determination that expenditure of these funds for purposes of this bill would be authorized, as specified. The bill would place an unspecified limit on the amount and duration of the grants. The bill would require each recipient of a grant under the program to annually report specified data to the State Department of Education. The bill would also require the State Department of Education to provide the Legislature with, and to make publicly available, a report detailing specified budget information and data measuring outcomes relating to the program.