A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to make additional employees working in the state and additional family members of employees transferred into the state eligible for in‑state community college tuition.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115D‑39(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The State Board of Community Colleges shall fix and regulate all tuition and fees charged to students for applying to or attending any institution pursuant to this Chapter.
The receipts from all student tuition and fees, other than student activity fees, shall be State funds and shall be deposited as provided by regulations of the State Board of Community Colleges.
The legal resident limitation with respect to tuition, set forth in G.S. 116‑143.1 and G.S. 116‑143.3, shall apply to students attending institutions operating pursuant to this Chapter, except that the following shall be charged the in‑State tuition rate:
(1)	An employee domiciled outside the State who is employed at a North Carolina business location;
(2)	A dependent relative of a person transferred by a company into the State, while sharing the domicile of that person;
(3)	A refugee who lawfully entered the United States and who is living in this State; and
(4)	A nonresident of the United States who has resided in North Carolina for a 12-month qualifying period and has filed an immigrant petition."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.