| 13 | 13 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1 |
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| 14 | 14 | | AN ACT TO MODIFY THE CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES FUNDING FORMULA . 2 |
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| 15 | 15 | | The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | SECTION 1.(a) G.S. 115C-111.05 reads as rewritten: 4 |
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| 17 | 17 | | "ยง 115C-111.05. Funding for children with disabilities. 5 |
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| 18 | 18 | | To the extent funds are made available for this purpose, the State Board shall allocate funds 6 |
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| 19 | 19 | | for children with disabilities to each local school administrative unit public school unit, except 7 |
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| 20 | 20 | | those operating under Article 9C of this Chapter, on a per child basis. Each local school 8 |
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| 21 | 21 | | administrative unit public school unit receiving funds pursuant to this section shall receive funds 9 |
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| 22 | 22 | | for the lesser of (i) all children who are identified as children with disabilities or (ii) thirteen 10 |
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| 23 | 23 | | percent (13%) of its the sum of the allocated average daily membership in the public school units 11 |
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| 24 | 24 | | co-located within the boundaries of a local school administrative unit for the current school 12 |
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| 25 | 25 | | year.year, plus the number of students that received scholarship grants pursuant to Part 2A of 13 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Article 39 of this Chapter for the most recent school year that data is available and reside within 14 |
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| 27 | 27 | | the boundaries of the local school administrative unit." 15 |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 1.(b) The State Education Assistance Authority shall provide to the 16 |
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| 29 | 29 | | Department of Public Instruction by March 15 of each year the number of students that received 17 |
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| 30 | 30 | | scholarship grants pursuant to Part 2A of Article 39 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes that 18 |
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| 31 | 31 | | resided within the boundaries of each local school administrative unit during the most recent 19 |
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| 32 | 32 | | school year. 20 |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 21 |
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| 34 | 34 | | Public Instruction the sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) in recurring funds for the 22 |
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| 35 | 35 | | 2025-2026 fiscal year to be allocated to public school units for children with disabilities funding. 23 |
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| 36 | 36 | | SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025, and applies beginning with 24 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the funding allocations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. 25 |
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