A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide scholarships for wounded warriors to attend a university or community college motorsports program.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the State Education Assistance Authority the sum of thirty‑nine thousand eight hundred eighty‑six dollars ($39,886) in recurring funds for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year to provide four scholarships for members of the Wounded Warrior Program to complete a motorsports technology, motorsports management, race car technology, or similar program or concentration at a community college in this State or a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina. Of these funds, the State Education Assistance Authority may use up to three and one‑half percent (3.5%) to administer the scholarships; the remainder shall be used for the scholarships. The State Education Assistance Authority shall select the four recipients of the scholarships.
SECTION 1.(b)  In order to be eligible to receive a scholarship under this act, a student must meet all of the following requirements:
(1)	The student must be seeking to complete a program or concentration in motorsports technology, motorsports management, race car technology, or a similar program or concentration.
(2)	The student must qualify as a legal resident of North Carolina and as a resident for tuition purposes in accordance with definitions of residency that may from time to time be adopted by the Board of Governors and be published in the residency manual of the Board of Governors.
(3)	The student must meet enrollment standards by being admitted, enrolled, and classified as an undergraduate student in a matriculated status at a community college in this State or a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina.
(4)	In order to continue to be eligible for a scholarship for successive academic years, the student must meet achievement standards by maintaining satisfactory academic progress towards completion of the program or concentration for which the scholarship was awarded.
(5)	The student must be a member of the Wounded Warrior Program.
SECTION 2.  Of the funds appropriated from the Education Lottery Fund to the State Education Assistance Authority Fund for college and university scholarships, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in recurring funds for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year shall be used to market the availability of the scholarships provided for under this act to members of the Wounded Warrior Program associated with Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2014.