A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to restore funding for vocational education for seventh grade students.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 7.37 of  S.L. 2003‑284 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 7.37.  Local school administrative units shall make every effort to focus the vocational education budget reductions on the seventh grade for 2003‑2004 school year. For the 2004‑2005 school year, after making the base allotment for each local school administrative unit, the State Board of Education shall use the average daily membership for grades seven through twelve to calculate vocational education budget allotments to local school administrative units. "
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of eight million dollars ($8,000,000) in recurring funds for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year for vocational education.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.