GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 732

Short Title:  Funding Women's Athletics.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Nichols; Arnold, Balmer, Berry, Creech, Decker, Ellis, Hall, Hayes, McLawhorn, Mercer, Mitchell, C. Preston, J. Preston, Russell, and Weatherly.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 5, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR WOMEN'S ATHLETICS WITHOUT REQUIRING ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Whereas, women's intercollegiate athletics do not receive the attention or the funding that men's intercollegiate athletics receive; and
Whereas, football is an intercollegiate sport that receives great attention in this State and generates large amounts of money for the schools involved; and
Whereas, the rivalries generated between neighboring schools enhance attendance and promote ticket sales, and all the Division 1-A schools in this State previously took advantage of these rivalries by playing each other on an annual basis; and
Whereas, the money generated by these rivalries could be used to generate attention and funding for women's intercollegiate athletics; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University at Raleigh shall, beginning no later than the 1996 football season, schedule and play East Carolina University in football on an annual basis, both on their home fields and on East Carolina University's home field pursuant to a schedule to be agreed upon by the athletic directors at each institution.
Sec. 2.  Fifty percent (50%) of the net proceeds from each game required by Section 1 of this act shall be used by the institution entitled to the proceeds to fund women's intercollegiate athletics at that institution.  Each institution shall use those funds to supplement and not supplant existing funding for women's intercollegiate athletics.
Sec. 3.  Section 1 of this act is effective upon ratification.  The remainder of this act becomes effective July 1, 1993, and applies to academic years beginning with the 1993-94 academic year.