GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	2 

SENATE BILL 824
Education Committee Substitute Adopted 6/29/89

Short Title:  Air Conditioning/Public Schools.	(Public)
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June 27, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE AIR CONDITIONING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOMS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-521 is amended by adding a new subsection (b1) to read:
"( b1)	Effective October 1, 1989, all new school construction shall provide for air conditioning in every classroom."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 115C-521 is amended by adding a new subsection (b2) to read:
"( b2)	Unless the voters in a county vote not to provide air conditioning for public schools, all public school classrooms in a county shall be air conditioned as provided herein (i)	within four years of the date the first county office building in the county is air conditioned or (ii) by May 1, 1993, if any county office building in the county is air conditioned prior to May 1, 1989.
A board of education for a local school administrative unit that is located in whole or in part in a county in which a county office building is air conditioned shall estimate the cost of providing air conditioning to all of that unit's un-air conditioned public school classrooms that are located in the county.  The local board of education may present the cost of the air conditioning to the county commissioners with the school budget.  If the local board of education requests air conditioning for any public school classrooms, the county commissioners shall either provide adequate funds for the air conditioning or submit the issue to the voters of the county within the next year.  Unless a majority of the voters of the county vote against providing the air conditioning for the public school classrooms, the county commissioners shall provide adequate funds for the air conditioning."
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.  Section 1 of this act applies only to new school buildings for which plans were not submitted to the State Superintendent for approval pursuant to G.S. 115C-521(c) prior to the effective date of this act.