A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT To create a north carolina education lottery.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The North Carolina Education Lottery is created.
SECTION 2.  The net proceeds from the North Carolina Education Lottery shall be used to enable all North Carolina children to have the education they deserve. The funds shall be used:
(1)	To support a voluntary statewide prekindergarten program to prepare at-risk four-year-olds for school in order to close the achievement gap that now exists.
(2)	To reduce class sizes in our public schools, to fund items necessary to accomplish those ends, and to provide for more one-on-one instruction to allow teachers to teach and children to learn so that more children will stay in school, graduate, and go on to college.
(3)	To fund school construction projects, including paying the principal and interest on bonds that were issued on or after January 1, 2003, for school construction as long as the counties continue their local school construction maintenance of effort.
The funds from the Education Lottery shall supplement other State funds appropriated for education.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.