AN ACT directing the joint legislative education oversight committee to study strategies for recovering costs due to damaged and lost textbooks.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee shall study strategies for recovering costs due to damaged and lost textbooks.  In the course of the study, the Committee shall consider the scope of the problem and strategies for recouping the replacement costs.  The Committee shall report the results of this study to the General Assembly by March 31, 2008.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2007.

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		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2007