A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to APPROPRIATE funds to study the establishment and funding of a teacher assistant salary schedule and to appropriate funds for that purpose.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee shall study the feasibility and advisability of establishing, funding, and implementing a salary schedule for teacher assistants in this State.  
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of twenty‑five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to conduct the study mandated by Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 3.  The Committee shall report the findings and results of the study required by this act, including any legislative recommendation or proposal, to the General Assembly prior to the convening of the 2007 General Assembly.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.