AN ACT modifying the history and geography curricula in the public schools.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑81(b1) reads as rewritten:
"(b1)	Both the standard course of study and the Basic Education Program shall include the requirement that the public schools provide to all students one yearlong course of instruction on North Carolina history and geography in elementary school and one yearlong course of instruction in middle school on North Carolina history with United States history integrated into this instruction. The course of instruction shall include contributions to the history and geography of the State and the nation by the racial and ethnic groups that have contributed to the development and diversity of the State and nation. Each course of instruction may include up to two weeks of instruction relating to the local area in which the students reside."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2010‑2011 school year.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22nd day of June, 2009.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved 6:05 p.m. this 30th day of June, 2009