A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to support the North CAROLINA HOSPITALITY education foundation for career and technical education in the hospitality industry.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for each year of the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium as a grant‑in‑aid to the North Carolina Hospitality Education Foundation (Education Foundation) of the North Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association to be used to provide nationally certified programs in career and technical education focused on developing critical skills necessary for students to succeed in the hospitality sector. The purpose of the funds shall be to support instructor and student training and student testing to increase the State's skilled workforce in the restaurant and lodging sectors. The Education Foundation shall match State funds made available pursuant to this section on the basis of one dollar ($1.00) in State funds for every one dollar ($1.00) in non‑State funds.
SECTION 2.  The Education Foundation, in consultation with the Department of Public Instruction, shall submit a report by April 1 of each year in which the Education Foundation spends State funds made available pursuant to this act to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee and the Fiscal Research Division on the activities described by this act and the use of those funds.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.