GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1091

Short Title:  Legislative Tuition Grant Increase Funds.    	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Smith; Royall and Murphy.
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Referred to:  Higher Education.
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May 1, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENTAL TUITION GRANT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  In addition to any funds appropriated pursuant to G.S. 116-19 or appropriated by the 1989 General Assembly and in addition to all other financial assistance made available to private educational institutions located within the State, or to students attending such institutions, there is hereby granted to each full-time North Carolina undergraduate student attending an approved institution as defined in G.S. 116-22, $200.00 per academic year in 1990-91, which shall be distributed to the approved institution for the student as hereinafter provided.
The tuition grants provided for in this act shall be administered by the State Education Assistance Authority pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the State Education Assistance Authority not inconsistent with this act.  The State Education Assistance Authority shall not approve any grant until there has been received from an appropriate officer of the approved institution a certification that the student applying for the grant is an eligible student.  Upon receipt of such certification in proper form, the State Education Assistance Authority shall remit at such times as it shall prescribe the grant to the approved institution on behalf, and to the credit, of such student.
In the event a student on whose behalf a grant has been paid shall not be enrolled and carrying a minimum academic load as of the 10th classroom day following the beginning of the school term for which such grant was paid, the institution shall refund to the State Education Assistance Authority the amount of grant paid on behalf of such student for such term.  Each approved institution shall be subject to examination by the State Auditor for the purpose of determining whether such institution has properly certified eligibility and enrollment of students and credited grants paid in the behalf of such students.
In the event there are not sufficient funds to provide such eligible student with a full grant, each eligible student shall receive a reduced but equal share of funds then available for the remainder of the academic year within the fiscal period covered by the current appropriation.  Any remaining funds shall revert to the General Fund.
Sec. 2.  Expenditures made pursuant to this act shall be used for secular educational purposes only.  If any provisions of these sections or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the sections which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application and to this end the provision of the sections are declared to be severable.
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina $4,632,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.
Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1990.