AN ACT to permit local boards of education to enter into lease purchase or installment purchase contracts for food service equipment.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑528(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Local boards of education may purchase or finance the purchase of automobiles; school buses; mobile classroom units; food service equipment, photocopiers; and computers, computer hardware, computer software, and related support services by lease purchase contracts and installment purchase contracts as provided in this section. Computers, computer hardware, computer software, and related support services purchased under this section shall meet the technical standards specified in the North Carolina Instructional Technology Plan as developed and approved under G.S. 115C‑102.6A and G.S. 115C‑102.6B."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of July, 2007.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 11:24 a.m. this 31st day of August, 2007