GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 577

Short Title:  Changes in Textbook Adoption.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Diamont; Bowman, and Walker.
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Referred to:  Education.
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March 14, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR FUNDING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CHANGES IN THE TEXTBOOK ADOPTION PROCESS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 115C-89 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C-89. Selection of textbooks by Board.
At the next meeting of the Board after the reports have been filed, the Textbook Commission and the Board shall jointly examine the reports. From the books evaluated the Board shall select those that it thinks will meet the teaching requirements of the State public schools in the instructional levels for which they are offered. 
The Board shall make all necessary rules and regulations concerning requests for bids, notification to publishers of calls for adoption, execution and delivery of contracts, requirement of performance bonds, cancellation clauses, and such other material matters as may affect the validity of the contracts."
Sec. 2. Employees of local school systems who are appointed to serve on Regional Textbook Evaluation Advisory Committees and who are not under contract with their local school system at the time they perform their duties as members of the committees, shall be compensated for each day's service on the committee at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per day, not to exceed 10 days service, plus reimbursement for travel and expenses as allowed for State employees under Chapter 138 of the General Statutes.  Members of the Regional Textbook Evaluation Advisory Committees who are under contract with a local school board, or any State agency during the period of their service on the committees, shall receive their regular pay, plus reimbursement for travel and subsistence expenses as allowed for State employees under Chapter 138 of the General Statutes.
Sec. 3. There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education the sum of            
dollars ($         ) for the 1989-90 fiscal year, and the sum of
              dollars ($          )for the 1990-91 fiscal year, to be used to implement changes in the textbook adoption process.
Sec. 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.