A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year for enrollment growth at north carolina's community colleges and for legislatively mandated salary increases for community college personnel.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of forty million two hundred thousand dollars ($40,200,000) in recurring funds for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to fully fund enrollment growth at North Carolina's community colleges.
SECTION 2.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of sixty‑two million dollars ($62,000,000) in recurring funds for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to fund legislatively mandated salary increases for local community college personnel in the amount of five percent (5%), effective July 1, 2020.
SECTION 2.(b)  The legislative salary increases provided by subsection (a) of this section do not apply to persons separated from service due to resignation, dismissal, reduction in force, death, or retirement, or whose last workday is prior to June 30, 2020. Payroll checks issued to employees after July 1, 2020, that represent payment of services provided prior to July 1, 2020, are not eligible for the salary increase provided for in this section.
SECTION 3.  If House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, then any provision of that act, or the Committee Report described in Section 42.2 of that act, that conflicts with the provisions of this act is repealed.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2020.