Bill Text: NC H1014 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: NC Pre-K Conforming Change/Taylor's Law

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-06-22 - Ch. SL 2016-30 [H1014 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2015-H1014-Introduced.html

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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HOUSE BILL DRH10491-TAz-10*   (03/15)

 

 

 

Short Title:      NC-PreK Conforming Change.

(Public)

Sponsors:

Representatives Dobson, Jeter, Malone, and Earle (Primary Sponsors).

Referred to:

 

 

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to make conforming changes by removing obsolete references to the more at four program in the general statutes, as recommended by the joint legislative oversight committee on health and human services.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑242 reads as rewritten:

"§ 115C‑242.  Use and operation of school buses.

Public school buses may be used for the following purposes only, and it shall be the duty of the superintendent of the school of each local school administrative unit to supervise the use of all school buses operated by such local school administrative unit so as to assure and require compliance with this section:

(1)        A school bus may be used for the transportation of pupils enrolled in and employees in the operation of the school to which such bus is assigned by the superintendent of the local school administrative unit. Except as otherwise herein provided, such transportation shall be limited to transportation to and from such school for the regularly organized school day, and from and to the points designated by the principal of the school to which such bus is assigned, for the receiving and discharging of passengers. No pupil or employee shall be so transported upon any bus other than the bus to which such pupil or employee has been assigned pursuant to the provisions of this Article: Provided, that children enrolled in a Headstart program or any More at FourNC Pre‑K program may be transported on public school buses, and any additional costs associated with such contractual arrangements shall be incurred by the benefitting Head Start or More at FourNC Pre‑K program: Provided further, that children with disabilities may be transported to and from the nearest appropriate private school having a special education program approved by the State Board of Education if the children to be transported are or have been placed in that program by a local school administrative unit as a result of the State or the unit's duty to provide such children with a free appropriate public education.

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SECTION 2.  G.S. 143B‑168.12(a)(1)n. reads as rewritten:

"§ 143B‑168.12.  North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc.; conditions.

(a)        In order to receive State funds, the following conditions shall be met:

(1)        The North Carolina Partnership shall have a Board of Directors consisting of the following 26 members:

n.         The Director of the More at Four Pre‑KindergartenNC Pre‑K Program, or the Director's designee."

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

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