GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 344

Short Title:  School Violence Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Reeves; Carrington, Miller, and Rucho.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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March 10, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE.
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 five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year and the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 1998-99 fiscal year to support the North Carolina Center for the Prevention of School Violence in the College of Education and Psychology at North Carolina State University.  These funds shall be allocated for each year of the biennium as follows:
(1)	$580,000 to operate and maintain the North Carolina Center for the Prevention of School Violence at North Carolina State University.
(2)	$4,340,000 for placement of a school resource officer (SRO) in the middle schools that have reported the highest number of incidents of school violence.
(3)	$80,000 for staff support to administer State grant funds to local units for the middle schools' school resource officers.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.