A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to construct a replica of a Rosenwald School in edgecombe county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Edgecombe County Public Schools the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to create, in partnership with the Phoenix Society for African American Research, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, a replica of a two‑teacher Rosenwald School building on the grounds of the W.A. Pattillo A+ School.  The replica will serve as (i) a museum featuring photographs, oral history interviews, artifacts, and other items, (ii) a classroom equipped to teach the history of African-American education, and (iii) an office for the Phoenix Society.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.