GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
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SENATE BILL 657
Short Title: Keeping Our Coaches Act. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Johnson, Settle, and Chitlik (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 ALLOCATE T AX PROCEEDS FROM SPO RTS BETTING TO PROVIDE 2
SALARY SUPPLEMENTS F OR ATHLETIC COACHES. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 105-113.128 reads as rewritten: 5
"§ 105-113.128. Use of tax proceeds. 6
The Secretary shall distribute the taxes collected under this Article, less the allowance to the 7
Department of Revenue and reimbursement to the Lottery Commission for administrative 8
expenses, in accordance with this section. The Secretary may retain the cost of administering this 9
Article, not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) a year, as reimbursement to the 10
Department. The Lottery Commission shall, no later than 20 days after the end of the month, 11
notify the Department of its unreimbursed expenses from administering the provisions of Article 12
9 of Chapter 18C of the General Statutes from the previous month. The Department shall 13
reimburse the Lottery Commission from the tax revenues collected under this Article no later 14
than the end of the month in which the Department was notified. The remainder of the net 15
proceeds of the tax collected under this Article are to be credited in the following priority: 16
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(3a) Eleven million dollars ($11,000,000) annually to the Department of Public 18
Instruction to be allocated to eligible public school units to provide salary 19
supplements to all eligible athletic coaches to ensure that each eligible athletic 20
coach receives a total annual salary supplement for serving as an athletic 21
coach of at least three thousand dollars ($3,000) in State and non-State funds. 22
An eligible public school unit that provided non-State funds for salary 23
supplements for athletic coaches in the prior school year shall continue to 24
provide at least that amount of non-State funds for salary supplements for 25
athletic coaches. Any public school unit that supplants funds provided under 26
this subdivision for salary supplements for athletic coaches shall not receive 27
State funds for salary supplements in the subsequent school year. If there are 28
any unexpended funds from this allocation at the end of the fiscal year, the 29
Department shall allocate those funds to the North Carolina Alliance of 30
YMCAs, Inc. to support youth sports programming in the State. For purposes 31
of this subdivision, the following definitions shall apply: 32
a. Eligible athletic coach. – A person employed full-time in a public 33
school unit who serves as an athletic coach and who receives a salary 34
supplement from non-State funds for serving as an athletic coach that 35 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
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is equal to or less than three thousand dollars ($3,000) each school 1
year. 2
b. Eligible public school unit. – A public school unit that reports to the 3
Department of Public Instruction by August 15 of each year on the 4
amount of non-State funds provided for salary supplements for athletic 5
coaches in the prior school year. 6
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SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025, and applies beginning with 8
the 2025-2026 school year. 9