GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 540
Short Title: Increase Small County Funding. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Hanig, Corbin, and Sanderson (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 26, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE ALLOTMENT AMOUNTS F OR AND PROVIDE 2
ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO THE SMALL COUNTY SCH OOL SYSTEM 3
SUPPLEMENTAL ALLOTME NT. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C-472.23(a) reads as rewritten: 6
"§ 115C-472.23. Small county school system supplemental funding. 7
(a) Allotment Schedule. – Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, 8
each eligible county school administrative unit shall receive a dollar allotment according to the 9
following schedule, on the basis of allotted ADM for the county school administrative unit, to 10
the extent funds are made available for this purpose: 11
Allotted ADM Small County Allotment 12
0-1,300 $1,820,000$2,548,000 13
1,301-1,700 $1,774,700$2,484,580 14
1,701-2,000 $1,729,400$2,421,160 15
2,001-2,300 $1,684,100$2,357,740 16
2,301-2,600 $1,638,800$2,294,320 17
2,601-2,800 $1,593,500$2,230,900 18
2,801-3,300 $1,548,200$2,167,480" 19
SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 20
Public Instruction the sum of twenty million nine hundred sixty-one thousand one hundred eighty 21
dollars ($20,961,180) in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement the 22
provisions of this act. 23
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 24