GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 510

Short Title:  Snow Days Offset/Certain Schools.	(Local)

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Sponsors: Representatives Fox; and Wilkins.

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Referred to:  Ways and Means.

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March 13, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PERMIT THE LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION IN CERTAIN COUNTIES TO SCHEDULE LONGER SCHOOL DAYS SO AS TO OFFSET DAYS LOST DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-84.1(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	This section applies only to the Alleghany, Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Craven, Duplin, Franklin, Gaston, Graham, Granville, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Jones, Lenoir, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Pamlico, Polk, Rockingham, Stokes, Swain, Transylvania, Vance, Wake, Warren, Watauga, and Yancey County School Administrative Units. The local board of education in each of these counties shall evaluate the educational effectiveness of this type of scheduling and shall report the results of this evaluation to the State Board of Education for the first two years following the ratification of this section."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to school years beginning with the 1997-98 school year.