A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate additional funds for exceptional children impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) crisis.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 3.1 of S.L. 2020‑4 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 3.1.  Transfer of Funds from Reserves to Relief Fund. – The State Controller shall transfer the sum of one billion two hundred seventy‑eight million eight hundred eighty‑eight thousand twenty‑nine dollars ($1,278,888,029) for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year from the Reserve established in Section 2.1 of this act, and the sum of one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000) for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year from the Local Government Coronavirus Relief Reserve established in Section 2.3 of this act, to the Fund established in Section 2.2 of this act."
SECTION 2.  Section 3.2 of S.L. 2020‑4 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 3.2.  Appropriation of Funds from Relief Fund to OSBM. – There is appropriated from the Fund to OSBM the sum of one billion four hundred twenty‑eight million eight hundred eighty‑eight thousand twenty‑nine dollars ($1,428,888,029) in nonrecurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to be allocated and used as provided in Section 3.3 of this act. The funds appropriated in this section shall not revert at the end of the 2019‑2020 fiscal year but shall remain available to expend until December 30, 2020."
SECTION 3.  Subdivision (16) of Section 3.3 of S.L. 2020‑4 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 3.3.  Allocations of Funds. – OSBM shall allocate the funds appropriated in Section 3.2 of this act as follows:
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(16)	$17,900,000 to the Department of Public Instruction to hold in reserve and to award as grants, in the discretion of the Department, to public school units that apply for funds to support extraordinary costs associated with providing Extended School Year Services or future services, as appropriate, for exceptional children who qualify for these services due to the impacts of COVID‑19."
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.