Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 65

FORMERLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 226

AN ACT MAKING A ONE-TIME SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2020 TO THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated $61,980,700 (Sixty-One Million Nine Hundred Eighty Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars) in General Funds to the Office of Management and Budget, Contingencies and One-Time Items (10-02-11) for the following purposes:

(01-08-02) DELIS $147,000

(10-02-11) ASSIST System Enhancements $1,500,000

(10-02-11) Behavioral Health Consortium $100,000

(10-02-11) Data Services Center Study $70,000

(10-02-11) Higher Education Enhanced Land Grant/

Workforce Development Fund $1,500,000

(10-02-11) Kids Population Contingency $5,000,000

(10-02-11) Legal Fees $3,978,400

(10-07-01) Space Renovation (DVCC) $75,000

(10-07-02) DELJIS Programming Updates $65,500

(12-01-01) Complete Count $650,000

(15-01-01) Equipment $18,500

(16-05-02) Self Insurance $4,500,000

(16-06-01) Centennial Celebration – Women’s Suffrage $50,000

(20-01-01) Kalmar Nyckel $150,000

(20-01-01) USS Delaware $150,000

(35-01-20) Switch Replacement $95,600

(35-02-01) Medicaid Dental $250,000

(35-05-20) Elementary Wellness Centers $10,000

(35-07-01) ASSIST Technology and Upgrades $493,000

(35-10-01) Training and Curriculum Development $145,000

(35-11-10) Electronic Health Records $25,000

(35-11-20) Replace Pool $42,000

(37-01-25) Moving Costs $363,900

(37-01-50) Fiber and Network Infrastructure Upgrades $885,000

(38-01-01) Re-entry Program $22,200

(38-01-14) Cisco Phone System $210,600

(38-01-14) Camera System Upgrade $87,800

(38-04-01) Vocational Training $58,800

(38-04-01) Re-entry Costs $6,400

(38-04-01) Inmate Grievance Review Project $109,100

(38-04-03) Re-entry Costs $41,600

(38-04-03) Security Equipment $29,300

(38-04-04) Security Equipment $76,700

(38-04-06) Security Equipment $44,600

(38-04-12) Training $282,000

(38-06-02) Training $23,000

(38-06-02) Security Equipment $227,000

(38-06-06) Evidence Lockers $11,300

(38-06-07) Security Equipment $107,300

(40-04-03) Real-Time Environmental Monitoring $150,800

(45-06-01) Promotional Process Review $105,000

(45-06-08) Equipment $35,100

(45-06-09) Security Equipment $204,700

(70-01-01) Voting Technology $625,300

(70-01-01) 2020 Presidential Primary $110,000

(70-02-01) 2020 Presidential Primary $763,000

(70-03-01) 2020 Presidential Primary $389,200

(70-04-01) 2020 Presidential Primary $218,000

(77-01-01) GACEC Website $10,000

(90-03-01) Social Work Reaccreditation $218,000

(95-02-02) DE Literacy Plan $50,000

(95-02-02) Opportunity Fund $37,500,000

Section 2. Section 1 of this Act makes an appropriation for Opportunity Fund in the Office of Management and Budget, Contingencies and One-Times (10-02-11). This funding shall be used to provide additional funding for English Learner (EL) and low-income students at $12,500,000 per year over a three year period. Funding shall be combined with any appropriation made in the Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Act to district and charter schools for this purpose.

These combined funds shall be allocated to district and charter schools using prior year EL and low-income enrollment for use in the following manner:

(a) 30,000.0 allocated over three fiscal years, plus $10,000.0 in the current fiscal year, shall be apportioned on a per pupil basis to all district and charter schools where such local education agencies shall have flexibility in the use of these funds to enhance services to EL and low-income students, including using these funds to cover 100 percent of personnel costs for associated staff, contractual services, supplies and materials or other expenditures deemed necessary to provide additional supports to these populations. Staff may include, but not be limited to, personnel dedicated to improving reading comprehension and math proficiency, or who provide additional wrap-around services or mental health supports.

(b) $7,500.0 in one-time supplemental appropriation allocated over three fiscal years, plus $2,500.0 in the current fiscal year, shall be apportioned to schools which qualify for a Reading Interventionist under the Student Success Block Grant as detailed in the Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Act. Said funds shall be used by district and charter schools for mental health services in the form of school counselors, school social workers or licensed clinical social workers, school psychologists and/or additional reading supports for grades K-5. Services may include the employment of staff, where such funding may be used to cover 100 percent of personnel costs on a 10 to 12-month basis and/or contracted services.

(c) Notwithstanding any provisions of the Delaware Code or this Act to the contrary, all districts shall be authorized to assess a local match to provide for the local contribution of personnel costs associated with this appropriation.

Districts and charter schools must submit an expenditure plan to the Department of Education no later than July 10, 2019. The Department of Education will provide an expenditure plan template and plan development supports, including identifying evidence-based practices shown to improve performance outcomes for these two subgroups, to districts and charter schools. Funds allocated under this section shall not supplant otherwise available funding.

The Department, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget and Office of the Controller General, shall use funds in this appropriation to employ an outside consultant to perform an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of these funds and of appropriations under the Student Success Block Grant on improving performance outcomes for students supported through said appropriations and to identify best practices of districts or charter schools that most successfully utilized these funds. The evaluation results shall be reported to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senate President Pro Tempore, chairs of the Education Committees of the House and Senate, and the Co-Chairs of the Joint Finance Committee no later than November 15th of the following year. Additionally, the Department of Education will report annually on various metrics relating to this funding across the two subgroups including, but not limited to, academic growth, progress toward English language and math proficiency, and reductions in chronic absenteeism rates.

Section 3. Section 1 of this Act appropriates $1,500.0 to the Office of Management and Budget, Contingencies and One-Time Items (10-02-11) for the Higher Education Enhanced Land Grant/Workforce Development Fund. Funds shall be made available to the University of Delaware, Delaware State University and Delaware Technical Community College upon application. Said funds shall be used to supplement appropriations in the Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Act that match federal land grant appropriations or that support academic programs that address critical workforce needs in the State. Any such application for funding shall include the following:

(a) For supplements to federal land grant appropriations: the total federal matching requirements, the amount of state resources supporting the matching requirement, total land grant federal appropriations received, and how such appropriations are expended; and

(b) For supplements to academic programs supporting critical workforce needs: the total state funding for such program, additional costs incurred by the institution for such program, and the impact such program has on meeting the workforce needs of the State.

Any allocation from the Fund shall be approved by the Co-Chairs of the Joint Finance Committee, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Controller General.

Approved June 25, 2019


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