GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

HOUSE BILL 1187
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A PILOT PROGRAM TO PUT COMMUNICATION DEVICES ON SCHOOL BUSES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The State Board of Education shall establish a pilot program in one or more local school administrative units, including the Northampton County Schools, to enable local boards of education to use State school transportation funds to install communication devices in school buses.
The State Board shall report the results of the study to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee prior to January 1, 2000.  The report shall include the cost of the pilot program and the benefits derived from it.
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of June, 1999.

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	Dennis A. Wicker
	President of the Senate

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	James B. Black
	Speaker of the House of Representatives

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	James B. Hunt, Jr.
	Governor

Approved 	.m. this 	 day of 	, 19