A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the triangle literacy council to establish at least twenty juvenile literacy centers in certain counties in the state.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) in nonrecurring funds for each year of the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium to provide a grant to the nonprofit organization known as the Triangle Literacy Council to support at least 20 new juvenile literacy centers that serve court‑involved and otherwise at‑risk youth, with at least one new juvenile literacy center in each of the following counties: Alamance, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham, Craven, Cumberland, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, Johnston, Jones, New Hanover, Onslow, Orange, Pender, Person, Vance, Wake, and Warren.
SECTION 1.(b)  The Triangle Literacy Council, in consultation with the Department of Public Instruction, shall submit a report by September 1 of each year following the fiscal year in which the Triangle Literacy Council spends State funds made available pursuant to this act. The report shall be submitted to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee and the Fiscal Research Division on the activities described by this section and the use of State funds.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.