A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to increase the pay of teacher assistants.
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 one million one hundred fifty thousand two hundred forty dollars ($1,150,240) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million one hundred fifty thousand two hundred forty dollars ($1,150,240) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to provide sufficient funds to pay State‑funded teacher assistants at least the minimum of salary grade 56.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.