A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds from the coronavirus relief fund to winston‑salem state university to support INFRASTRUCTURE for moving to online courses to respond to the IMPACT of covid‑19 on its students.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Definitions. – For the purposes of this act, the following definitions apply:
(1)	Coronavirus Relief Fund. – Funds received by the State of North Carolina during the 2019‑2020 fiscal year from the Coronavirus Relief Fund created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020, P.L. 116‑136.
(2)	COVID‑19. – Coronavirus disease 2019.
SECTION 2.  The sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) in nonrecurring funds is appropriated from the Coronavirus Relief Fund to Winston‑Salem State University for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to support necessary infrastructure for the university to move to online education for its students in response to the impacts of COVID‑19.
SECTION 3.  Of the funds appropriated from the Coronavirus Relief Fund by this act, funds shall only be used for necessary eligible expenditures incurred during the period that begins on March 1, 2020, and ends on December 30, 2020. The funds appropriated by this act shall not revert at the end of the 2019‑2020 fiscal year but shall remain available to expend until December 30, 2020.
SECTION 4.  By February 1, 2021, Winston‑Salem State University shall report to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Education/Higher Education, the House Appropriations Committee on Education, the Fiscal Research Division, and the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on the use of the appropriated funds made available pursuant to this act.
SECTION 5.  This act is effective when it becomes law.