Special education programs: Family Empowerment Centers on Disability: grants.

Existing law requires the State Department of Education to award grants for the establishment of Family Empowerment Centers on Disability in 32 regions in the state to provide training and services to children and young adults with disabilities and their families. Existing law establishes a minimum base rate of $150,000 for each center awarded a grant and requires a center that receives a grant to complete specified actions related to providing that training and those services. This bill would require the department to give priority to grant applicants in those of the 32 regions in the state that do not have a center. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine additional criteria on the basis of which to give priority in awarding grants no later than February 15, 2021, and would require the department to give priority in that manner once it is determined by the Superintendent.