A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide a sound basic education to Every student in north carolina.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  For the purposes of this act, "Comprehensive Remedial Plan" means the plan set out in the Consent Order on Leandro Remedial Action Plan for Fiscal Year 2021 in the action of Hoke County Board of Education v. State of North Carolina, 95‑CVS‑1158 in the General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division, Wake County, North Carolina, on September 11, 2020.
SECTION 1.(b)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of one hundred forty‑two million nine hundred thousand dollars ($142,900,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022‑2023 fiscal year to carry out the requirements of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto.
SECTION 1.(c)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of six hundred eight million six thousand two hundred forty‑eight dollars ($608,006,248) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022‑2023 fiscal year to carry out the requirements of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto.
SECTION 1.(d)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of thirty‑four million two hundred thousand dollars ($34,200,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022‑2023 fiscal year to carry out the requirements of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto.
SECTION 2.(a)  The appropriations in Section 1 of this act are to be administered consistent with and under the time frames set out in the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto.
SECTION 2.(b)  The appropriations made in this act are for the maximum amounts necessary to provide the services and accomplish the purposes described in the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto. Savings shall be effected where the total amounts appropriated are not required to perform these services and accomplish these purposes, and, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the savings shall revert to the appropriate fund at the end of each fiscal year.
SECTION 3.  When developing the base budget, as defined in G.S. 143C‑1‑1, for the 2023‑2024 fiscal year and each year thereafter, the Director of the Budget shall include the amounts necessary to carry out the Comprehensive Remedial Plan as it exists when this act becomes law. The Director of the Budget shall annually submit a report detailing how funds shall be used in alignment with the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto and items from the Comprehensive Remedial Plan which have action steps or costs that are yet to be determined to the Fiscal Research Division, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services, and the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.