GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1456

Short Title:  LEA's Operate as Charters/Study.	(Public)

─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors: Senators Horton; Allran, Foxx, Garwood, Hartsell, and Rucho.

─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  Rules and Operations of the Senate.

─────────────────────────────────────── 

May 28, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF PERMITTING ALL OF THE SCHOOLS IN A LOCAL SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT TO FUNCTION AS CHARTER SCHOOLS AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE STUDY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Legislative Research Commission is authorized to study the feasibility of permitting all of the schools in a local school administrative unit to function as charter schools.  In the course of the study the Commission shall consider the potential impact on public education and the potential impact on  students, parents, and school employees, of letting the schools function as charter schools.  The Commission shall also consider the costs and benefits of doing so.  The Commission shall report the results of this study to the 1999 General Assembly.
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the General Assembly the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the 1998-99 fiscal year to perform the study authorized in Section 1 of this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1998.