A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to raise the cap on the number of children receiving supplemental funding for children with disabilities.
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 six million two hundred twelve thousand four hundred two dollars ($6,212,402) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to raise the cap on the number of children receiving supplemental funding for children with disabilities.  Each local school administrative unit shall receive funds for the lesser of (i) all children who are identified as children with disabilities or (ii) twelve and seventy‑five one hundredths percent (12.75 %) of the 2008‑2009 allocated average daily membership in the local school administrative unit.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.