H.B. 1032
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
May 24, 2022
SESSION 2021 HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK
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HOUSE BILL DRH10562-NGa-103
Short Title: Sound Basic Education. (Public)
Sponsors: Representative Gill.
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SOUND BASIC EDUCATION TO EVERY STUDENT IN NORTH
3 CAROLINA.
4 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
5 SECTION 1.(a) For the purposes of this act, "Comprehensive Remedial Plan" means
6 the plan set out in the Consent Order on Leandro Remedial Action Plan for Fiscal Year 2021 in
7 the action of Hoke County Board of Education v. State of North Carolina, 95-CVS-1158 in the
8 General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division, Wake County, North Carolina, on September
9 11, 2020.
10 SECTION 1.(b) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of
11 Health and Human Services the sum of one hundred forty-two million nine hundred thousand
12 dollars ($142,900,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022-2023 fiscal year to carry out the
13 requirements of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto.
14 SECTION 1.(c) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of
15 Public Instruction the sum of six hundred eight million six thousand two hundred forty-eight
16 dollars ($608,006,248) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022-2023 fiscal year to carry out the
17 requirements of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto.
18 SECTION 1.(d) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of
19 Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of thirty-four million two hundred
20 thousand dollars ($34,200,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022-2023 fiscal year to carry out
21 the requirements of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto.
22 SECTION 2.(a) The appropriations in Section 1 of this act are to be administered
23 consistent with and under the time frames set out in the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including
24 the Appendix thereto.
25 SECTION 2.(b) The appropriations made in this act are for the maximum amounts
26 necessary to provide the services and accomplish the purposes described in the Comprehensive
27 Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto. Savings shall be effected where the total amounts
28 appropriated are not required to perform these services and accomplish these purposes, and,
29 notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the savings shall revert to the
30 appropriate fund at the end of each fiscal year.
31 SECTION 3. When developing the base budget, as defined in G.S. 143C-1-1, for the
32 2023-2024 fiscal year and each year thereafter, the Director of the Budget shall include the
33 amounts necessary to carry out the Comprehensive Remedial Plan as it exists when this act
34 becomes law. The Director of the Budget shall annually submit a report detailing how funds shall
35 be used in alignment with the Comprehensive Remedial Plan, including the Appendix thereto
36 and items from the Comprehensive Remedial Plan which have action steps or costs that are yet
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1 to be determined to the Fiscal Research Division, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on
2 Health and Human Services, and the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee.
3 SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law.
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