A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for community college counseling services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of four million two hundred seventy‑two thousand seven hundred ninety‑three dollars ($4,272,793) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for counselors.  Of these funds the sum of four hundred seventy‑five thousand dollars ($475,000) shall be allocated to the existing 15 minority male mentoring programs.  The  remainder shall be used to support one counselor position per campus.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.