A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that the governor shall include in the continuation requirements for the state budget the amount the governor proposes to fund for enrollment increases in private colleges through the legislative tuition grants and the state contractual scholarship funds.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 143C‑3‑5(b)(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)	A Recommended State Budget setting forth goals for improving the State with recommended expenditure requirements, funding sources, and performance information for each State government program and for each proposed capital improvement. The Recommended State Budget may be presented in a format chosen by the Director, except that the Recommended State Budget shall clearly distinguish program continuation requirements, program reductions, program eliminations, program expansions, and new programs, and shall explain all proposed capital improvements in the context of the Six‑Year Capital Improvements Plan and as required by G.S. 143C‑8‑6. The Director shall include as continuation requirements the amounts the Director proposes to fund for the enrollment increases in public schools, community colleges, The University System, and the private colleges through the legislative tuition grants and the State contractual scholarship funds as described by G.S. 116‑19 through G.S. 116‑22. "
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.