A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the Department of Public Instruction, Committee on Dropout Prevention, to award additional dropout prevention grants.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction, Committee on Dropout Prevention, the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year to award additional dropout prevention grants.   The Committee shall give priority to programs that received funding under the provisions of Section 7.14 of S.L. 2008‑107 and programs in counties that have not received a dropout prevention grant in the previous two years.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.