Health education and law enforcement prevention grants.

WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0467

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0153

Health education and law enforcement prevention grants.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Hastert and Nutting and Representative(s) Barbuto

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
health education by law enforcement
; creating an account; providing for the expenditure of funds from the account for

preventive
education training by law enforcement
;
providing an appropriation; providing rulemaking authority
;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1
.

(a)

There is created the
health education and law enforcement prevention grant account
which shall be funded for the benefit of the department of health,
mental heath and substance abuse division
.

(b)

The
health education and law enforcement prevention grant account

shall
be
funded through the appropriation made in Section 2 of this act as well as
any
monies received from federal grants and other contributions, grants, gifts, transfers, bequests and donations to the account.

The account is specifically empowered to accept grants, gifts, transfers, bequests and donations including those which are limited in their purposes by the grantor.

(c
)

All monies in the

health education and law enforcement prevention grant account

are continuously appropriated to the department of health and
shall be expended
only to provide grants and
other
funding to
law enforcement agencies that provide prevention education related to:

(i)

Bullying, cyberbullying and internet safety;

(ii)

Prescription, over-the-counter and other
drug
abuse
s and
addictions
;

(iii)

Decision making and
positive
,
healthy choices
.

(d)

The department
shall identify
and select persons to
whom they will provide funding from the
health education and law enforcement prevention grant account

based on the following criteria:

(i)

Consideration of the number of people served;

(ii)

The availa
bility of other funding sources;

(iii)

The effectiveness of the services
offered
in
providing the prevention education identified in subsection (c) of this section.

(
e
)

The department of health,
mental health and
substance abuse division shall promulgate reasonable rules and regulations in accordance with the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act to implement the
award of funds in the
health education and law enforcement prevention grant account

and to review and monitor the expenditure of monies awarded
.

Section 2.

There is appropriated
one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) from the gene
ral fu
nd to the department of health, mental heath and substance abuse division.
This appropriation shall be for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30, 2012. This appropriation
shall be deposited in the
health education and law enforcement prevention grant account, created by Section 1 of this act, and

shall only be expended for the purposes outlined in Section 1 of this
act.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this

appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any

other purpose and any unexpended, unobligated funds

remaining from this appropriation shall revert as provided

by law on June 30, 2012.

This appropriation
shall not be
included in the
department of health's
standard 2013-2014 budget.

Section 3
.

The

department of health, mental heath and substance abuse division shall
provide a report to the joint labor, health and social services interim committe
e no later than November 1, 2012
with respect to the expenditure of the appropriation provided by this act
. The report shall identify the persons or programs who received funds from the

health education and law enforcement prevention grant account and the amounts received. The report also shall describe the types of education that were funded and identify who received the education. The report shall include any other information deemed
relieving
by the department.

Section
4
.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

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