A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to APPROPRIATE funds to south piedmont community college and union county schools to establish a Partnership for a career pathway initiative.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of (i) eight hundred seventy‑two thousand dollars ($872,000) in nonrecurring funds and (ii) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in recurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to be allocated to South Piedmont Community College (SPCC) to partner with Union County Schools to establish a career pathways initiative for high school students at the Tyson Family Learning Center at SPCC. The career pathways initiative shall begin in the fall of 2019 and shall be focused in the areas of industrial maintenance and mechatronics, construction management, welding, and large equipment operations. These funds shall be used as follows:
(1)	The sum of six hundred seventy‑two thousand dollars ($672,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year shall be used for equipment for SPCC classrooms and laboratories according to the following:
a.	The sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for classroom computers and equipment security.
b.	The sum of one hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) for industrial maintenance and mechatronics.
c.	The sum of seventy‑five thousand dollars ($75,000) for construction trade equipment.
d.	The sum of one hundred fifteen thousand dollars ($115,000) for welding equipment.
e.	The sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for large equipment simulators.
f.	The sum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) for a toolbox and cabinet.
(2)	The sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year shall be used to develop a pre‑apprenticeship, apprenticeship, and career design articulation agreement between SPCC and the Union County Schools for the career pathways initiative.
(3)	Beginning with the 2019‑2020 fiscal year, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in recurring funds, for three fiscal years, for a project‑based learning professional development program for SPCC and Union County Schools for implementation of the career pathways initiative.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) in recurring funds to allocate to Union County Schools to establish positions to support the career pathways initiative in partnership with SPCC at the Tyson Family Learning Center as described in Section 1 of this act. The funds shall be used to establish the following full‑time positions:
(1)	One site administrator.
(2)	Six teachers.
(3)	One security associate.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.