A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the board of governors of the university of north carolina for the east carolina University health sciences division to use to train professionals who work with preschool and school‑age children who have cochlear implants and to provide oral classes to those children.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year and the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year in recurring funds to be allocated to East Carolina University Health Sciences Division to do the following:  (i) train teachers and therapists to work with deaf preschool‑age and school‑age children with cochlear implants and (ii) provide oral classes to children with cochlear implants.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.