A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for allied health programs in the community college system and to promote differential funding.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  The State Board of Community Colleges shall identify the Allied Health Programs within the Community Colleges System and shall weight the costs of Allied Health Programs as a group against all other programs within the System.  The State Board shall modify its funding formula to allow for differentiation in funding between Allied Health Programs and all other programs.
SECTION 1.(b)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of twenty‑eight million nine hundred forty‑three thousand nine hundred sixty‑nine dollars ($28,943,969) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to provide for differentiated funding for Allied Health Programs.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.