GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1008

Short Title:  DOCC/Literacy Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Yongue, Lemmond; Hunt and Boyd-McIntyre.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 3, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO SUPPORT ADULT LITERACY PROGRAMS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  (a)	There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Community Colleges the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year to expand the capacity of basic skills programs to provide services to adults.
(b)	Of the funds appropriated in this act, the sum of one million eight hundred thousand dollars ($1,800,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year shall be allocated to volunteer and community-based organizations as follows:
(1)	$1,525,000 to provide a stable funding base for each volunteer and community-based organization to increase their organization capacity and quality;
(2)	$200,000 to provide staff development and training, to be coordinated by North Carolina Literacy Resource Center;
(3)	$75,000 to provide technical assistance to counties not served by volunteer and community-based organizations, to develop alternative literacy services for adults in the community, to be coordinated by North Carolina Literacy Resource Center.
(c)	Of the funds appropriated in this act, the sum of one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year shall be used by the Department of Community Colleges for software development and computer equipment for volunteer and community-based organizations and to expand the Literacy Education Information System (LEIS) data management and accountability system to volunteer and community-based organizations.
(d)	Funds appropriated in this act are intended to supplement and not to supplant federal Adult Education Act funds presently administered through the Department of Community Colleges or any existing State funds.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.