GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1123

Short Title:  Deaf Children Trans. Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Cooper.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 11, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE TRANSITION AND SUPPORT FOR DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING STUDENTS USING CUED SPEECH IN MAINSTREAM-EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
Whereas, most of the deaf children served by the Cued Speech Early Education Program and the collaborative Cued Speech preschool classes conducted by the North Carolina Schools for the Deaf and the Cued Speech Center eventually enter mainstream-education programs in their local public school systems; and
Whereas, transition services are critically needed to ease the advancement of these children into elementary school by providing training, consultative services, and other support; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the 1994-95 fiscal year, the sum of ninety-five thousand dollars ($95,000) for each fiscal year, which shall be allocated each fiscal year to the Cued Speech Center, in Wake County, to provide statewide transition support services for deaf and hard-of-hearing children advancing from Cued Speech preschool programs to public school elementary programs.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.