49-1-1004 - Amount and availability of funds.
49-1-1004. Amount and availability of funds.
(a) The amount in the grant program shall be limited to the amount appropriated and shall be available to LEAs based on the guidelines developed by the commissioner of education.
(b) The amount that each LEA is eligible to receive shall be subject to a local match, following the funding model set forth in § 49-6-4302(c)(2).
(c) Any grants made to an LEA shall be expended in addition to any funds already expended as school health programs. For this purpose, expenditures of components enumerated in § 49-1-1002 for the 1998-1999 fiscal year shall be considered the base expenditure on school health, and any LEA receiving grant funds shall maintain this base.
[Acts 2000, ch. 554, § 5.]