This bill establishes the Building Opportunity Through Out-of-school Time Program within the Department of Health and Human Services as a competitive grant program to expand out-of-school programming opportunities for school-age youth by increasing or enhancing current programming, reducing barriers for access to out-of-school
14 programming and creating new programming. It directs the department to issue by
15 December 1, 2026 program grant awards to eligible community nonprofit organizations or
16 libraries and monitor grantee performance and, no later than February 1, 2027 and annually
17 thereafter, submit a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having
18 jurisdiction over health and human services matters summarizing the operation of the
19 program for the immediately preceding fiscal year. The bill appropriates $5,000,000 from
20 the General Fund to the department for the 2026-27 fiscal year to carry out the requirements
21 of the program.