A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to APPROPRIATE funds to support the planning and support of the innovation early college high school and to appropriate funds for the school upon its approval by the STate board of education as a cooperative innovative high school.
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 one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year to be allocated to Pitt County Schools for the planning and support of the Innovation Early College High School to be established in partnership with East Carolina University. The funds appropriated in this section may be used for school construction or renovation of school property. 
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of three hundred sixteen thousand six hundred forty‑six dollars ($316,646) in recurring funds for the 2018‑2019 fiscal year to be allocated to Pitt County Schools for the Innovation Early College High School as a cooperative innovative high school, subject to the approval of the State Board of Education to begin operation in the 2018‑2019 school year. These funds shall be appropriated for each fiscal year in which the cooperative innovative high school is in operation.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2017.