A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allocate additional funds to constituent institutions DESIGNATED as historically black colleges and universities to address underfunding at those institutions and to allocate additional funds to north Carolina agricultural and technical state university to support its doctoral programs.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) in additional recurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to be allocated to constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina that are designated as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to address funding disparities between the HBCUs and other constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($7,500,000) in additional recurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to support established doctoral programs. These funds shall support new faculty and graduate student services for the doctoral programs.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.