GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1189

Short Title:  Exceptional Children's Funding.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Nesbitt; Barnes, Diamont, Black, Rogers, Hackney, Colton, Crawford, Fitch, Beall, Bowman, Burton, Church, Cummings, Griffin, Hill, Jack Hunt, Ives, Jeffus, Joye, Luebke, McCrary, Mitchell, Moore, Ramsey, Stewart, R. Thompson, Wainwright, and P. Wilson.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 22, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE APPROPRIATIONS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The General Assembly intends to increase the appropriations for exceptional children to bring the total expenditures for exceptional children to twice the amount expended for regular education children, and to appropriate money to carry out this intent as funds become available until this goal is reached and permanently established.  The funding formula used to carry out this intent shall be as follows:  the actual total expenditures per regular education pupil for the previous fiscal year multiplied by the number of exceptional children receiving services during that year, as determined by the most recent head count in that year, multiplied by two.
For purposes of this section, regular education expenditures are computed by subtracting excess expenditures for exceptional children from the total education expenditures for all children served.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to begin implementation of the formula prescribed by Section 1 of this act.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.