GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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SENATE BILL 969*

Short Title:  School Supplemental Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Parnell; Conder, Perdue, Albertson, Jordan, Sands, Kerr, Gunter, Richardson, Sherron, Marshall, Martin of Guilford, Hunt, Martin of Pitt, Cooper, and Hoyle.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 27, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTAL SCHOOL FUNDING FOR SMALL AND LOW-WEALTH COUNTIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education the sum of seven million dollars ($7,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of seven million dollars ($7,000,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for small school supplemental funding.  These funds are in addition to the funds in the amount of seven million sixty-seven thousand nine hundred ninety-one dollars ($7,067,991) in the proposed continuation budget for this purpose for each year of the fiscal biennium.
These funds shall be allocated in accordance with Section 201.1 of Chapter 689 of the 1991 Session Laws, as rewritten by Sections 47.1 and 47.2 of Chapter 761 of the 1991 Session Laws.  This funding formula for small school supplemental funding shall remain in effect until repealed or amended by the General Assembly.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education the sum of forty million dollars ($40,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to provide supplemental funds in low-wealth counties to allow those counties to enhance the instructional program and student achievement.  These funds are in addition to the funds in the amount of nine million forty-two thousand three hundred thirteen dollars ($9,042,313) in the proposed continuation budget for this purpose for each year of the fiscal biennium.
These funds shall be allocated and spent in accordance with Section 201.2 of Chapter 689 of the 1991 Session Laws, as rewritten by Section 47.3 of Chapter 761 of the 1991 Session Laws and Section 67 of Chapter 900 of the 1991 Session Laws, except that the first paragraph of subsection (e1) shall not apply.  This funding formula to provide supplemental funds in low-wealth counties shall remain in effect until repealed or amended by the General Assembly.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.