A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PAY A BONUS TO CHILD NUTRITION PERSONNEL IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of eight million six hundred sixty‑two thousand one hundred eighty‑five dollars ($8,662,185) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of eight million six hundred sixty‑two thousand one hundred eighty‑five dollars ($8,662,185) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to pay a bonus to child nutrition personnel. The State Board of Education shall allocate these funds to local school administrative units on the basis of five cents (5¢) for each meal served in the local school administrative unit during the prior school year. In calculating the number of meals served, the State Board shall convert supplemental sales to an equivalent number of meals.
Local school administrative units shall use these funds for a bonus to school‑based and central office‑based child nutrition employees who (i) were employed as child nutrition employees by the local school administrative unit during the prior school year and (ii) are employed as child nutrition employees by the same local school administrative unit at the time the bonus is paid.
Local school administrative units shall allocate these funds to eligible employees on the basis of a set percentage of each eligible employee's salary. The bonus shall be paid to employees between November 1 and December 15 of the school year.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.