AB 1744: After school programs: substance use prevention: funding: cannabis revenue.

Existing law establishes the After School Education and Safety Program under which participating public schools receive grants to operate before and after school programs serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 9, inclusive. The After School Education and Safety Program requires each program component to consist of an education and literacy element and an educational enrichment element, as specified.

This bill would specifically authorize for inclusion within the education enrichment element pupil assistance youth development activities that promote healthy choices and behaviors in order to prevent and reduce substance use and improve school retention and performance.

Existing law establishes the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program program and the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program, program, which provide for the allocation of grant funds by the State Department of Education for before or after school programs operating in accordance with specified program requirements. Existing law requires those programs to include an enrichment element.

This bill would specifically authorize for inclusion within the enrichment element pupil assistance youth development activities that promote healthy choices and behaviors in order to prevent and reduce substance use and improve school retention and performance.

The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election as Proposition 64, among other things, requires the Controller, by July 15 of each fiscal year beginning in the 201819 fiscal year, to disburse 60% of the funds deposited in the California Cannabis Tax Fund during the prior fiscal year into the Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention and Treatment Account, to be disbursed by the Controller to the State Department of Health Care Services for programs for youth that are designed to educate about and to prevent substance use disorders and to prevent harm from substance use. AUMA authorizes the programs to include, but not be limited to, certain components, including grants to schools to develop and support student assistance programs, or other similar programs, designed to prevent and reduce substance use, and improve school retention and performance. AUMA requires the State Department of Health Care Services to enter into interagency agreements with the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Education to implement and administer these programs.

This bill would state that the Legislature encourages schools that to establish a program pursuant to the After School Education and Safety Program, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, program, or the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program program that is designed to educate about and prevent substance use disorders or to prevent harm from substance abuse to apply to receive funding abuse, as provided. The bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to enter into interagency agreements with the State Department of Education to implement and administer these programs, pursuant to AUMA, and to allocate to schools funding from the Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention and Treatment Account established pursuant to AUMA. The bill would also amend provide in AUMA to specify that the State Department of Health Care Services, in determining which programs to be funded, may consider selecting, among other programs, programs established pursuant to the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens Program, program, the After School Education and Safety Program, and the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program. program. The bill would also specify in AUMA that grants to schools to develop and support expanded learning programs, designed to prevent and reduce substance use, and improve school retention and performance, are part of the components that programs receiving funding under AUMA may include.