SB 25-197

Senate Bill 25-197, also known as the Tony Grampsas Youth Services Program, aims to provide grants to community programs that help reduce youth crime and violence. The bill consolidates several existing programs into a single grant program managed by the Department of Human Services, which will now handle responsibilities previously overseen by the Tony Grampsas youth services board. It also removes local funding match requirements for these programs. Additionally, it adjusts how funds from marijuana taxes are allocated to support this new consolidated grant program. Since the bill has been signed into law, it is now in effect and community organizations can apply for grants under this new system.

Official Summary

The Tony Grampsas youth services grant program (grant program) provides grants to community-based programs to reduce incidents of youth crime and violence. The youth mentoring program, the student dropout prevention and intervention program, and the student before-and-after school project (collectively, the "programs") were created within the grant program. The act repeals the individual programs and instead lists the programs as allowable uses for grant money under the grant program. The act transfers certain responsibilities from the Tony Grampsas youth services board (board) to the department of human services (department). The act repeals local public-to-private funding match requirements. The act requires each entity that receives a grant to annually report certain information to the department; except that an entity that has an operating budget of less than $1.5 million, or that receives a grant in the amount of not more than $25,000, is not required to report on the outcomes achieved by the services provided and the methods used to track the outcomes. The act decreases the appropriation from the marijuana tax cash fund to the youth mentoring services cash fund by $500,000 and reappropriates the money to the grant program by $500,000. The act decreases the appropriation from the youth mentoring services cash fund to the grant program by $504,120. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

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