GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1997
SESSION LAW 1998-133
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The Department of Public Instruction shall form a task force to identify the barriers that prevent local boards of education from providing year-round schools for all grade levels. In addition, the task force shall identify ways that local boards of education or the State Board of Education could minimize or remove those barriers. The task force shall report the results of its study, including any proposed changes to existing laws, rules or policies, to the State Board of Education and the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee prior to May 15, 1999. The task force shall terminate upon reporting its results. The State Board of Education shall disseminate the results of the study to local boards of education no later than June 15, 1999.
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of September, 1998.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 10:20 a.m. this 11th day of September, 1998