GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 581

Short Title:  Home-Based Instruction/Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Warren; Ballance, and Marshall.
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Referred to:  Education/Higher Education.
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March 25, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE HOSPITAL- AND HOME-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES TO CHILDREN OTHER THAN CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-47 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
     	" (36)	To Provide Hospital- and Home-Based Instructional Services to Students Other Than Students With Special Needs. –  Each administrative unit shall provide hospital- and home-based instructional services to students, other than students with special needs, who because of illness or accidents require extended recuperation at home or an extended stay in a hospital."
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education, Aid to Local School Administrative Units, the sum of one million five hundred forty-nine thousand nine hundred sixty-nine dollars ($1,549,969) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of one million five hundred seventy-nine thousand two hundred nineteen dollars ($1,579,219) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to provide hospital- and home-based instructional services to children other than children with special needs.  These funds shall be provided to local school administrative units on a reimbursement basis.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.