A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for professional development for community college faculty and for a comprehensive program of global education throughout the community college system.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of three million nine hundred seventy‑eight thousand six hundred seventy‑two dollars ($3,978,672) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of three million nine hundred seventy‑eight thousand six hundred seventy‑two dollars ($3,978,672) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for professional development for community college faculty.  These funds may be used by faculty to pursue advanced degrees in their subject areas, attend professional meetings, attend continuing education programs, and to participate in other professional development activities.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of one million two hundred seventy thousand three hundred fifty‑three dollars ($1,270,353) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million two hundred sixty‑six thousand three hundred fifty‑three dollars ($1,266,353) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to deliver a comprehensive program of global education throughout the community college system.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.