A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to implement a recommendation of the house select committee on the education of students with disabilities to require the State board oF education to develop a training program for teachers and school personnel on the dual system of discipline and to require local boards of education to implement the training program on the dual system of discipline.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑12 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(35)	Duty to Develop a Training Program on the Dual System of Discipline. – The State Board shall develop a training program for teachers and school personnel that explains the dual system of discipline for nondisabled children and children with disabilities as defined in Article 9 of this Chapter. The State Board shall adopt a policy that requires all local boards of education to offer the training program to teachers and school personnel at the beginning of each school year as necessary. The training program on the dual system of discipline may be offered through distance learning."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 115C‑47 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(51)	To Implement a Training Program on the Dual System of Discipline. – Local boards of education shall adopt a policy on the implementation of the training program developed by the State Board of Education on the dual system of discipline for nondisabled children and children with disabilities as defined in Article 9 of this Chapter. The policy shall require all teachers and school personnel to participate in the training program at the beginning of each school year as necessary."
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the State Board of Education the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) to develop the training program on the dual system of discipline for teachers and school personnel.
SECTION 4.  Section 3 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2007.  The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.