A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for additional regional military family counselors.
Whereas, the House Select Committee on Military Affairs, in its report to the 2012 Regular Session of the 2011 General Assembly, recommended that five additional regional military family counselors be funded to serve the military students in the Onslow County Public School System and the Cumberland County Public School System, with two of the regional military family counselors to work in the Onslow County Public School System and three of the regional military family counselors to work in the Cumberland County Public School System; Now, therefore,
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 three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2012‑2013 fiscal year to fund five additional regional military family counselors. Two of the regional military family counselors shall work in the Onslow County Public School System, and three of the regional military family counselors shall work in the Cumberland County Public School System. The regional military family counselors shall provide assistance to families in those counties with issues related to deployment and family relocation. Pursuant to interlocal agreements between local school administrative units, the counselors shall serve families in similar circumstances in adjoining counties.
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2012.