GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

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HOUSE BILL 989

Short Title:  School Bus Operating Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Nesbitt; Cansler, Wainwright, Barefoot, Mosley, Sherrill, Smith, and Warner.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 13, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO IMPROVE THE OPERATION OF SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the State Board of Education the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year for school transportation operating expenses.  Local school administrative units shall use the funds to improve the operations of their school transportation systems and to eliminate double routing.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.