GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2025

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HOUSE BILL 457

Short Title:      Increase Small County Funding.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Price, K. Brown, and Penny (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to:	Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

March 20, 2025

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to change the allotment amounts for and provide additional funds to the Small county school system Supplemental allotment.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑472.23(a) reads as rewritten:

"§ 115C‑472.23.  Small county school system supplemental funding.

(a)        Allotment Schedule. – Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, each eligible county school administrative unit shall receive a dollar allotment according to the following schedule, on the basis of allotted ADM for the county school administrative unit, to the extent funds are made available for this purpose:

            Allotted ADM            Small County Allotment

            0‑1,300                        $1,820,000$2,548,000

            1,301‑1,700                 $1,774,700$2,484,580

            1,701‑2,000                 $1,729,400$2,421,160

            2,001‑2,300                 $1,684,100$2,357,740

            2,301‑2,600                 $1,638,800$2,294,320

            2,601‑2,800                 $1,593,500$2,230,900

            2,801‑3,300                 $1,548,200$2,167,480"

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of twenty million nine hundred sixty‑one thousand one hundred eighty dollars ($20,961,180) in recurring funds for the 2025‑2026 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2025.