A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to tarheel challenge, inc., to allow it to expand class size at its salemburg facility and to produce ONE HUNDRED additional graduates at a second facility.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to Tarheel Challenge, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that helps high school dropouts earn their General Education Development diploma and develop other life skills necessary to become productive citizens, the sum of eight hundred fifty‑five thousand dollars ($855,000)  for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of eight hundred fifty‑five thousand dollars ($855,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to do all of the following:
(1)	Cover operating costs of expanding class size at its Salemburg facility to capacity.
(2)	Refurbish the facility in Badin, North Carolina, so that it can be used as a second Tarheel Challenge Facility.
(3)	Obtain materials for refurbishing the Badin facility.
(4)	Cover operating costs of expanding class size at the Badin facility by 100 graduates. 
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.