Bill Text: NC S515 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Driver Education Funding

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-30 - Re-ref to Transportation. If fav, re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget [S515 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2015-S515-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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SENATE BILL 515

 

 

Short Title:        Driver Education Funding.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Smith‑Ingram (Primary Sponsor);  Robinson, Van Duyn, and Waddell.
Referred to:	Rules and Operations of the Senate.

March 26, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to restore the funding from the highway fund for the driver education program administered by the department of public instruction.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b) of Section 8.15 of S.L. 2014‑100 are repealed.

SECTION 2.  G.S. 115C‑216(g) reads as rewritten:

"(g)       Fee for Instruction. – The local boards of education shall fund driver education courses from funds available to them and may charge each student participating in a driver education course a fee of up to sixty‑five dollars ($65.00) to offset the costs of providing the training and instruction."

SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding G.S. 143C‑5‑2, there is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Public Instruction the sum of twenty‑six million four hundred sixty‑one thousand eight hundred forty‑three dollars ($26,461,843) in recurring funds for the 2015‑2016 fiscal year for the purpose of covering expenses incurred by the State in carrying out the provisions of the driver education program administered by the Department of Public Instruction in accordance with G.S. 115C‑215.

SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.