A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for an early childhood reading intervention initiative.
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 twelve million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($12,750,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of twelve million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($12,750,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  The State Board of Education shall use these funds to develop and implement an early childhood reading intervention initiative.  The initiative shall:
(1)	Identify students who cannot read at the end of the first grade and other elementary school students who are reading below grade level, and
(2)	 Provide them with assistance they need to read at grade level.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.