Amendment of Rules Relating to Security Assistance for Non-Public Schools

Effective date: July 28, 2025

Proposed Rule Full Text
Certified-Proposed-Amendment_Security-Guard-NPS-Rules.pdf

Adopted Rule Full Text
FINAL_Adopted-Rule-for-City-Recordv3.pdf

Adopted rule summary:

The amendment to the rules: • Adds definitions for Invoice Submission Portal, PASSPort, Qualifying Nonpublic School, and Reimbursement Period, deletes the definition for HHS Accelerator, and updates the definition for School Security Administrator; • Replaces all references to HHS Accelerator; • Adds HHS Accelerator Prequalification as a required step in PASSPort; • Changes the student enrollment requirement from 300 to 150 students to increase the number of schools eligible for reimbursement; • Changes the application requirement for schools to submit the prior year’s Basic Educational Data System (BEDS) or Student Information Repository System (SIRS) reports for the current school year; • Allows a School with multiple locations under one BEDS Code to station a Security Guard in any of those locations that satisfies the minimum student enrollment requirements; • Adds a required document to the application; and • Removes the requirement for submission of the Budget Task The rule also includes some minor plain language edits.