A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to modify the fees for teacher certification and administrative changes to certification.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑296(a2) reads as rewritten:
"(a2)	The State Board of Education may adopt rules, as provided in Chapter 150B of the General Statutes, establishing a fee schedule for licensure services. The fee is payable at the time a teacher certification or administrative change application is submitted; the fee is nonrefundable. The State Board must periodically review the fee schedule to ensure that the revenues generated from the fees do not exceed the actual costs of providing the licensure services. If the State Board finds that the fees imposed by this subsection exceed the costs of providing licensure services, it must reduce the fees accordingly.
The State Board must provide an online licensure management system that will allow a person to submit applications electronically. The fee schedule adopted by the State Board may provide a lower fee amount for applications submitted electronically if the State Board determines that electronic applications are less costly to process. The fee schedule must provide online service for name changes, address changes, and electronic copies at no charge to the user.
The fees adopted by the State Board may not exceed the following amounts:
(1)	Application for demographic or administrative changes to a certificate, up to $45.00.
(2)	Application for a duplicate certificate or for copies of documents in the certification files, up to $45.00.
(3)	Application for a renewal, extension, addition, upgrade, and variation to a certificate, up to $80.00.
(4)	Initial application for New, In‑State Approved Program Graduate, up to $80.00.
(4a)	In‑State certificate review, up to $80.00.
(5)	Initial application for Out‑of‑State certificate, up to $125.00.
(5a)	Verification of North Carolina certificate for another state, up to $80.00.
(6)	All other applications, up to $125.00.
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SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2012.