A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing a study of whether local boards of education have the fiscal and administrative flexibility they need to operate the public schools efficiently and effectively.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee may study the issue of whether local boards of education have the fiscal and administrative flexibility they need to operate the public schools efficiently and effectively.  In the course of its study, the Committee shall consider current constraints on school boards with regard to expenditures of State funds and purchases of supplies, textbooks, and other goods and services.
SECTION 2.  The Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee shall report the results of this study, including any recommended legislation, to the 2003 General Assembly.
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the General Assembly the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2002.