A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase funding for instructional resources, including textbooks, instructional supplies, and equipment, and to Allow local school administrative units the flexibility to spend these funds on the resources they determine are most important.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of seventy‑six million dollars ($76,000,000) for the 2015‑2016 fiscal year and the sum of seventy‑six million dollars ($76,000,000) for the 2016‑2017 fiscal year to increase funding for textbooks.
SECTION 2.  Local school administrative units shall have the flexibility to use all funds in this allotment category for instructional resources, including textbooks, instructional supplies, and equipment, that they determine are most important.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2015.