GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S D
SENATE BILL DRS35154-MQa-82B
Short Title: Capital Project Funding at HBCUs. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Robinson and Lowe (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:
*DRS35154 -MQa-82B*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDING TO THE STATE'S HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES 2
AND UNIVERSITIES TO FUND NEW AND ONGOING CAMPUS CAPITAL 3
IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS . 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1.(a) There is appropriated from the Education Lottery Fund, established 6
in G.S. 18C-164(a), to the Office of State Budget and Management the sum of eight million 7
dollars ($8,000,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to be allocated to the 8
following private Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in accordance with 9
subsection (b) of this section: 10
(1) Bennett College. 11
(2) Johnson C. Smith University. 12
(3) Livingstone College. 13
(4) Shaw University. 14
SECTION 1.(b) The Office of State Budget and Management shall allocate the 15
funding appropriated in subsection (a) of this section to each of the listed HBCUs in an amount 16
proportional to the number of undergraduate students enrolled at each eligible constituent 17
institution who are residents of North Carolina and recipients of a federal Pell Grant. 18
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 19
FILED SENATE
Mar 20, 2025
S.B. 367
PRINCIPAL CLERK