GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
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SENATE BILL 552*
     

 
Short Title:	LEP Students.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Kinnaird;  Ballance, Carter, Gulley, Lee, Lucas, Miller, Purcell, Shaw of Cumberland, Soles, Warren, Weinstein, and Wellons.	
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.	
March 20, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for students with limited english proficiency.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of twenty‑seven million dollars ($27,000,000) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year and the sum of twenty‑seven million dollars ($27,000,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year to provide services to students with limited proficiency in the English language. The State Board of Education shall allocate these funds on the basis of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each student identified in accordance with State Board guidelines as having limited English proficiency.
Local school administrative units shall use funds allocated to them to pay for classroom teachers, teacher assistants, textbooks, classroom materials/instructional supplies/equipment, and staff development for students with limited English proficiency.
A county in which a local school administrative unit receives funds under this section shall use the funds to supplement local current expense funds and shall not supplant local current expense funds.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.