A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate STATE funds for the school connectivity initiative in order to maximize eligibility for federal funds.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year the sum of four million six hundred thousand dollars ($4,600,000) in recurring funds and the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) in nonrecurring funds to be used for the School Connectivity Initiative.
SECTION 2.(a)  The provisions of the State Budget Act, Chapter 143C of the General Statutes, are reenacted and shall remain in full force and effect and are incorporated in this act by reference.
SECTION 2.(b)  Except where expressly repealed or amended by this act, the provisions of any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session of the General Assembly expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, shall remain in effect.
SECTION 2.(c)  If House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, and any provision of that act or a provision of the Committee Report described in Section 42.2 of that act conflicts with this act, this act shall control.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2020.