GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 43

Short Title:  Exceptional Child Funding.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Ward and Tally.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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February 3, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE APPROPRIATIONS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN TO BRING TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN TO TWO TIMES THE EXPENDITURES FOR NONEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  It is the intent of the General Assembly to increase the appropriations for exceptional children to bring the total expenditures for exceptional children to two times the expenditures for nonexceptional children, and to appropriate this money as funds become available, in accordance with the following formula:  Multiply the actual total regular education expenditures per pupil for the previous fiscal year times the number of exceptional pupils receiving services, as per the most recent headcount, times two.  For purposes of this section, regular education expenditures are computed by subtracting exceptional children's excess expenditures out of the total education expenditures.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year to begin implementation of this formula.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.