Introduced Version






SENATE BILL No. 423

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: None (noncode).

Synopsis: Imagination library program. Appropriates $3,000,000 to the department of education to be used to fund matching grants to school corporations to participate in the Imagination Library early reading program to provide books for children from birth through five years of age.

Effective: July 1, 2007.





Simpson




    January 16, 2007, read first time and referred to Committee on Appropriations.







Introduced

First Regular Session 115th General Assembly (2007)


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SENATE BILL No. 423



    A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning education and to make an appropriation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: ; (07)IN0423.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2007] (a) There is appropriated to the department of education three million dollars ($3,000,000) from the state general fund to fund matching grants to school corporations to participate in the Imagination Library early reading program beginning July 1, 2007, and ending June 30, 2009.
    (b) Before January 1, 2008, the department of education shall:
        (1) enter into an agreement with the Imagination Library to establish a free book program for children from birth through five (5) years of age in Indiana; and
        (2) establish criteria for distributing matching fund grants to school corporations that allow the use of federal funds, state funds, local funds that may include property tax revenues, private funds, and in-kind contributions for a school corporation's match.
    (c) This SECTION expires July 1, 2009.