A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate additional funds for textbooks and to modify the textbook funding formula, as recommended by the Joint Legislative Study Committee on Public school funding formulas.
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 one million four hundred forty‑four thousand two hundred fifty‑eight dollars ($1,444,258) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to provide additional funds for textbooks.
SECTION 2.  The State Board of Education shall allot textbook funds to:
(1)	Each local school administrative unit on the basis of average daily membership; and
(2)	Each local school administrative unit on the basis of its increase, if any, in average daily membership over the prior school year. The average daily membership for the second month of the current school year shall be used to calculate this increase.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.