A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to establish the north carolina geography education fund.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to establish the North Carolina Geography Education Fund, provided the National Geographic Society matches these funds with non‑State funds on a dollar‑for‑dollar basis. The Fund shall be used to provide teacher training and support programs that encourage and improve the teaching of geography and to increase geographic knowledge throughout the State.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.