GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 637

Short Title:  N.C. Geographic Alliance Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Warren; and Jordan.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 31, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA GEOGRAPHIC ALLIANCE NETWORK PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education, Aid to Local School Administrative Units, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to fund the North Carolina Geographic Alliance Network Program, which is headquartered at East Carolina University. These funds shall be used to:
(1)	Increase communication and cooperation between the professional geographic community and the network of Regional Education Centers;
(2)	Increase the number of in-service workshops conducted by professional geographers for the Regional Education Centers and local education agencies;
(3)	Increase the membership of professional geographers in the North Carolina Council for Social Studies;
(4)	Increase the number of professional geographers doing sessions at the annual meetings of the North Carolina Council for Social Studies;
(5)	Increase advisory interaction of professional geographers with the North Carolina Board of Education with regard to geography in the curriculum; and
(6)	Increase involvement of public school teachers with the North Carolina Geographic Society.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.