GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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HOUSE BILL 1015

Short Title:  Textbook Development Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Barnes, Arnold (co-sponsors) Russell, and Oldham.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 4, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES TEXTBOOKS FOR GRADES FOUR THROUGH SEVEN OR TO USE TEXTBOOK FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year for the production of social studies textbooks for grades four through seven by the Humanities Extension/Publications Program at North Carolina State University.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Part 3 of Article 8 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes, the State Board of Education shall make these textbooks available to all public school students in grades four through seven when they are produced.
If these funds are not appropriated by the General Assembly for the 1995-96 fiscal year or the 1996-97 fiscal year, the State Board of Education shall use funds appropriated for textbooks in the amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year for this purpose.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.