GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 316
HOUSE BILL 679

AN ACT TO EXCLUDE CHEMICALLY DEPENDENT CHILDREN, NOT OTHERWISE ELIGIBLE, FROM THE PROVISIONS APPLYING TO CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Chapter 115C of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Article to read:
"ARTICLE 9A.
"Children With Chemical Dependency.
"§ 115C-149.  Policy.  Chemically dependent children excluded from provisions of Article 9.
The General Assembly of North Carolina hereby declares that the policy of the State is to ensure that an appropriate education is provided for drug and alcohol addicted children; however, drug and alcohol addicted children are not 'children with special needs' within the meaning of G.S. 115C-109 unless because of some other condition they meet that definition.
"§ 115C-150.  State Board to adopt rules.
The State Board of Education shall adopt rules to ensure that local school administrative units provide an appropriate education for drug and alcohol addicted children."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989, and shall apply to academic years beginning with the 1989-90 academic year.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of June, 1989.