GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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SENATE BILL 206

Short Title:        Kids Voting Funds.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Rand,  Garrou; Atwater, Berger of Franklin, Brown, Dannelly, Davis, Dorsett, Foriest, Goss, Graham, Jenkins, Jones, Kinnaird, Malone, Preston, Queen, Snow, Stein, Stevens, Swindell, Tillman, and Vaughan.
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.

February 18, 2009

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)        $50,000 to be used by the State program to implement new Kids Voting programs across the State.

(2)        $250,000 to be divided on the basis of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's Average Daily Membership with a minimum of $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.