Healthy Start Community Schools Act.

Existing law, the Healthy Start Support Services for Children Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to award grants to local educational agencies or consortia to fund programs in qualifying schools that provide designated support services to eligible pupils and their families. The act authorizes the issuance of both planning grants and operational grants to local educational agencies or consortia that provide support services, as defined, to pupils and their families, and authorizes the issuance of county or regional planning and coordinating grants to a specified number of local educational agencies or consortia each year, for the purposes of increasing the local planning and coordinating efforts among school districts, county offices of education, county governments, community organizations, and nonprofit organizations, as specified. This bill would rename the act as the Healthy Start Community Schools Act, recast several of the provisions of the act, and make technical and conforming changes. The bill would require proposals for grant support to include commitments to carry out the programs to be implemented by the grant from the governing boards of applicant local educational agencies, relevant memoranda of understanding with any local governmental agency partners, and plans for the phased expansion of any districtwide or countywide expansion of a program. The bill would also authorize the Superintendent to award supplemental funds for direct service to local educational agencies or consortia to address specific and serious service gaps, and remove provisions that prohibit more than 50% of each grant to be available for expenditure on direct services, as specified.