GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1016

Short Title:  Instructional Materials/K-6.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Taft; Allran, Barker, Block, Bryan, Daniel, Hunt of Durham, Hunt of Moore, Johnson of Wake, Kincaid, Martin of Pitt, Marvin, Murphy, Odom, Richardson, Shaw, Sherron, Smith, Swain, Tally, Ward, and Winner.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 26, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR GRADES K-6.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.   (a) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education $6,013,440 for the 1989-90 fiscal year, and $6,013,440 for the 1990-91 fiscal year, for local boards of education to be allocated by these boards to classroom teachers of grades K-6 in each local school administrative unit for the purchase of instructional materials. For each year of the biennium, each classroom teacher of grades K-6 shall receive $10.00 per pupil, per year, based on average daily membership, for each grade taught by the teacher in grades K-6, to be used for the purchase of instructional materials. 
(b) Funds appropriated under this act are supplementary to funds appropriated to the Department of Public Education and allocated to local school administrative units for the selection and procurement of supplementary textbooks, library books, periodicals, and other instructional materials and shall not be used to supplant these funds.
Sec. 2. G.S. 115C-98 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C-98. Local boards of education to provide for local operation of the textbook program and the selection and procurement of other instructional materials.
(a)	Local boards of education shall adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with the policies of the State Board of Education concerning the local operation of the textbook program.
(b)	Local boards of education shall adopt written policies concerning the procedures to be followed in their local school administrative units for the selection and procurement of supplementary textbooks, library books, periodicals, and other instructional materials needed for instructional purposes in the public schools of their units. Supplementary books and other instructional materials shall neither displace nor be used to the exclusion of basic textbooks.
(c)	Funds allocated by the State Board of Education or appropriated in the current expense or capital outlay budgets of the local school administrative units, may be used for the above-stated purposes; provided, however, that supplementary funds appropriated to the Department of Public Education and allocated by the State Board of Education for the purchase of instructional materials in grades K-6 shall be allocated by local boards of education to teachers of grades K-6 in each local school administrative unit for the purchase of instructional materials.  Allocations to teachers shall be based on average daily membership in grades K-6."
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.