A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for dropout prevention.
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 thirty‑eight million five hundred thousand dollars ($38,500,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to provide one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for each high school in the State for dropout prevention.  These funds shall not be used to supplant State, federal, or local funds currently used for dropout prevention.
Each local school administrative unit shall submit a plan to the State Board of Education on how these funds will be used prior to expending the funds.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.