GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 483

Short Title:  Civic Education Program Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative Moore.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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March 18, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A CIVIC EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL CLASSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina, Center for the Prevention of School Violence, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year to support the North Carolina We The People...Project Citizen civic education program.   The purpose of the program is to teach middle school classes how to identify and address State and local community public policy issues.  The funds shall be used to provide for classroom sets of texts, teacher in-service training, and an annual We The People...Project Citizen competition of simulated legislative hearings for participating middle school classes to be held in the State capitol.
Section 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.