H.B. 1036
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
May 24, 2022
SESSION 2021 HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK
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HOUSE BILL DRH30528-NHa-8
Short Title: Compass Youth Robotics Funding. (Public)
Sponsors: Representative Roberson.
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE COMPASS YOUTH CENTER ROBOTICS
3 PROGRAM.
4 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
5 SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of
6 Public Instruction for the 2022-2023 fiscal year the sum of one hundred two thousand five
7 hundred seventy dollars ($102,570) in nonrecurring funds to be allocated as a directed grant to
8 Compass Youth Center, a nonprofit corporation, to expand access to and participation in its
9 robotics program to students of public school units. The robotics program is a project-based
10 program that shall educate students in grades six through 12 on the fundamentals of science,
11 technology, engineering, and math (STEM), business, and financial literacy.
12 SECTION 2. No later than April 15, 2023, the Department of Public Instruction shall
13 report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on all expenditures of grant funds,
14 including equipment purchases and facility rentals, the total number of students participating in
15 the program, the total number of public school unit students participating in the program and the
16 public school units in which those students are enrolled, and the impacts of the program on
17 student performance, including in STEM areas.
18 SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2022.
*DRH30528-NHa-8*