A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate additional funds for disadvantaged student supplemental funding.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of seventy‑seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($77,500,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to increase the amount appropriated for disadvantaged student supplemental funding. Funds appropriated for disadvantaged student supplemental funding for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year shall be distributed on the basis of the number of disadvantaged students in each local school administrative unit.
The State Board of Education shall hold harmless local school administrative units that received disadvantaged student supplemental funding for the 2005‑2006 school year.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.