A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO authorize the department of public instruction to CARRY FORWARD funds FOR THE ANONYMOUS SAFETY TIP LINE APPLICATION to support statewide school safety INITIATIVES AND infrastructure.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Section 7.26(f) of S.L. 2018‑5 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 7.26.(f)  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Public Instruction by this act for the 2018‑2019 fiscal year, the sum of up to five million dollars ($5,000,000) in nonrecurring funds shall not revert at the end of the 2018‑2019 fiscal year, but shall remain available until the end of the 2019‑2020 fiscal year for the purposes set forth in this section. The funds shall be used to support (i) the anonymous safety tip line application implemented by the Department of Public Instruction, Division of School Operations, and the Center for Safer Schools pursuant to G.S. 115C‑105.51 and (ii) the development of statewide school safety initiatives and infrastructure. Statewide school safety initiatives and infrastructure may include interagency collaboration related to school safety and associated personnel, equipment, and technology. If the Department enters into an interagency agreement to collaborate with the State Bureau of Investigation on school safety and the Department provides funding through that agreement for State Bureau of Investigation personnel costs for the school safety initiative, the State Bureau of Investigation is authorized to establish full‑time time‑limited positions with those funds."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective June 30, 2019.