AN ACT authorizing community colleges to offer noncredit courses in safe driving to high school students during the school year.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115D‑20(4) reads as rewritten:
"§ 115D‑20.  Powers and duties of trustees.
The trustees of each institution shall constitute the local administrative board of such institution, with such powers and duties as are provided in this Chapter and as are delegated to it by the State Board of Community Colleges. The powers and duties of trustees shall include the following:
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(4)	To apply the standards and requirements for admission and graduation of students and other standards established by the State Board of Community Colleges. Provided, notwithstanding any law or administrative rule to the contrary, local administrative boards and local school boards may establish cooperative programs in the areas they serve to provide for college courses to be offered to qualified high school students with college credits to be awarded to those high school students upon the successful completion of the courses. Provided, further, that during the summer quarter, persons less than 16 years old may be permitted to take noncredit courses on a self‑supporting basis, subject to rules of the State Board of Community Colleges. Provided, further, that high school students may be permitted to take noncredit courses in safe driving on a self‑supporting basis during the academic year or the summer."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of June, 2009.

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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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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2009