A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to repeal the opportunity scholarship grants and to transfer and appropriate funds to decrease certain allotment reductions for local school administrative units.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  Section 8.29 of S.L. 2013‑360 is repealed.
SECTION 1.(b)  Part 2A of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes is repealed.
SECTION 1.(c)  G.S. 115C‑555 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C‑555.  Qualification of nonpublic schools.
The provisions of this Part shall apply to any nonpublic school which has one or more of the following characteristics:
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(4)	It receives no funding from the State of North Carolina."
SECTION 1.(d)  G.S. 116‑204(11) is repealed.
SECTION 2.  Of the funds appropriated to the North Carolina State Education Assistance Authority (NCSEAA) for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year for the award of scholarship grants under the Opportunity Scholarship Grants authorized by Section 8.29 of S.L. 2013‑360, the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) shall be transferred to the Department of Public Instruction for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year to reduce the average daily membership adjustment enacted in S.L. 2013‑360 to reflect the estimated decrease in public school average daily membership resulting from the Opportunity Scholarship Grants authorized by Section 8.29 of S.L. 2013‑360.
In addition to the funds transferred from NCSEAA to the Department in this section, there is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of one million seven hundred ninety‑seven thousand nine hundred forty‑one dollars ($1,797,941) for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year to eliminate the adjustment enacted in S.L. 2013‑360 to reflect the estimated decrease in public school average daily membership resulting from the Opportunity Scholarship Grants authorized by Section 8.29 of S.L. 2013‑360. Therefore, the following shall apply:
(1)	For the 2014‑2015 fiscal year, there shall not be a reduction in the budget of the Department of Public Instruction resulting from the implementation of the Opportunity Scholarship Grants.
(2)	The State Board of Education shall make no reductions to the allotments of local school administrative units in the 2014‑2015 school year related to the Opportunity Scholarship Grants.
SECTION 3.  Section 2 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2014. The remainder of this act is effective when this act becomes law.