GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 831

Short Title:  Small School System Supp. Funding.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Thompson.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 16, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE SMALL SCHOOL SYSTEM SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education the sum of $11,913,069 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $11,913,069 for the 1992-93 fiscal year for small school system supplemental funding.  The State Board of Education shall allocate these funds to each county school administrative unit with an average daily membership of less than 3000 students.  The allocation formula shall:
(1)	Round all fractions of positions to the next whole position;
(2)	Provide four additional regular classroom teachers;
(3)	Provide additional program enhancement teachers adequate to offer the standard course of study;
(4)	Change the duty-free period allocation to one teacher assistant per 400 average daily membership;
(5)	Provide a base for the consolidated funds allotment of at least $150,000, excluding textbooks; and
(6)	Allot vocational education funds for grade 6 as well as for grades 7-12.
Sec. 2. A county in which a local school administrative unit receives funds under this act shall use the funds to supplement and not supplant existing State and local funding for public schools.
The Local Government Commission shall analyze the budgets and the expenditures of school administrative units that receive funds under this act in light of their budgets and expenditures for the previous year and shall determine whether those funds were used to supplement and not supplant State and local funding for public schools.  The Local Government Commission shall report the results of its study to the State Board of Education, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee and to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives prior to May 1, 1992, and May 1, 1993.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.