GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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HOUSE BILL 15

Short Title:        Year‑Round Funds for CC UGETC.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Pendleton, Stam, and Yarborough (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to:	Education ‑ Community Colleges.

January 29, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to allow community colleges to teach universal general education transfer courses during the summer term and earn funding for those courses year‑round.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115D‑5(v) reads as rewritten:

"(v)       Community colleges may teach technical education, health care, developmental education, and STEM‑related coursescourses, and the Universal General Education Transfer Courses contained in the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement entered into between The University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Community College System at any time during the year, including the summer term. Student membership hours from these courses shall be counted when computing full‑time equivalent students (FTE) for use in budget funding formulas at the State level."

SECTION 2. The State Board of Community Colleges shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by October 1, 2015, on FTE for the summer 2015 term.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the summer 2015 term.