GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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HOUSE DRH30038-LG-31A  (1/23)

Short Title:        Kids Voting Funds.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Jeffus, Fisher, Glazier, and Rapp (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds for the Kids Voting of North Carolina program.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to Kids Voting of North Carolina, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year to be allocated as follows:

(1)        Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to be used by the State program to implement new Kids Voting programs across the State.

(2)        Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to be divided on the basis of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's Average Daily Membership with a minimum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for the following counties to assist those counties with their Kids Voting programs: Alleghany, Beaufort, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chowan, Clay, Cumberland, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Greene, Guilford, Haywood, Henderson, Iredell, Jackson, Lee, Madison, Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Onslow, Randolph, and Wake.

SECTION 2.  If a county that received funds under subdivision (2) of Section 1 of this act determines it does not need all of its funding, the county may remit any portion of the funds received to the State program for further expansion of the Kids Voting program to nonparticipating counties.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.