A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow charter schools to admit nonresident students if the school is not operating at capacity and to allow the charter school to charge the nonresident student tuition.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑218.45 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(a1)	Any charter school that is unable to fill its current enrollment with students qualified under the laws of this State for admission to a public school may enroll persons of school age who are not domiciliaries of the State and charge those students a tuition amount equal to the per pupil allocation of the local appropriation for the county in which the charter school is located and the per pupil State appropriation for that school year. The number of persons of school age who are not domiciliaries of the State who are enrolled in a charter school may not exceed ten percent (10%) of the total number of students enrolled in the charter school."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the admissions process for the 2024‑2025 school year.