GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
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SENATE BILL 1042
     

 
Short Title:	Hospitality/Tourism Job Training Funds.	()	
Sponsors:	Senator Hoyle.	
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.	
April 5, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of commerce for the purpose of conducting and promoting hospitality and tourism job training programs.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce, Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development, the sum of two hundred fifteen thousand dollars ($215,000) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year to coordinate, promote, and maintain hospitality and tourism job training programs as follows:
(1)	$100,000 for a tourism job training coordinator and a clerical assistant.
(2)	$65,000 for a training coordinator to establish ProStart, a two‑year school‑to‑career restaurant, food service, and lodging curriculum created by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation to build bridges between high school students and the respective industries and to enable high school students to gain fundamental culinary and business management skills while exploring career options in the restaurant, food service, and lodging industries.
(3)	$50,000 to fund promotion and coordination of job training programs and conduct regional conferences to improve articulation between participating institutions.
SECTION 2.  The coordination and promotion of hospitality and tourism job training shall require the support and cooperation of The University of North Carolina System, the Community Colleges System, and the Department of Public Instruction. Utilizing these funds, a program designed to conduct, promote, and maintain hospitality and tourism job training shall be considered a joint venture of the educational institutions that are participating members of the Culinary, Hospitality, Tourism Education Alliance (CHTEA), the Department of Commerce, and the travel and tourism industry of North Carolina.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.