A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide for additional personnel to support the office of the superintendent of public instruction.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  The following vacant positions shall be eliminated from the Department of Public Instruction:
Position number	Title
60093688	Chief Performance Officer
60091186	Accountant
65009118	Center Fellow
65009168	Personnel Analyst I
60039569	Education/Development Aide II
60039526	Education/Development Aide II
65017167	Program Assistant V
60041714	Education Diagnostician I
60094593	Business Technology Analyst
60039518	Education Consultant II
SECTION 1.(b)  Beginning with the 2016‑2017 fiscal year, from the funds generated from the vacant positions eliminated in subsection (a) of this section, the Superintendent of Public Instruction may use up to seven hundred four thousand nine hundred fifty‑seven dollars ($704,957) in recurring funds to appoint, in addition to any other personnel appointed by the Superintendent, up to five full‑time equivalent exempt policy‑making positions, as defined in G.S. 126‑5(b)(3), to staff the office of the Superintendent and assist in the administration of the Superintendent's duties under Article III and Section 4(2) of Article IX of the North Carolina Constitution as an elected officer and member of the Council of State and as secretary and chief administrative officer of the State Board of Education. Personnel appointed to these positions shall be exempt from the North Carolina Human Resources Act and shall report solely to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall fix the salaries of the personnel for the office of the Superintendent within the funds available as provided by this section. The personnel for the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction within the Department of Public Instruction shall be in addition to any staff appointed to the Department in accordance with G.S. 115C‑21(a)(1). The appointments shall not be subject to approval or disapproval by the State Board of Education.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.