NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 590

SENATE BILL 129

 

AN ACT TO MAKE INDOCHINA REFUGEES ELIGIBLE FOR IN-STATE TUITION STATUS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Article 14 of Chapter 116 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section which shall read as follows:

"§ 116-143.2.  Tuition of Indochina refugees. — Any alien paroled into the United States after March 31, 1975, under the United States Immigration and Nationality Act as a refugee or orphan from the Republic of Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia shall, if properly admitted to an institution of higher education as defined in G.S. 116-143.1, be eligible to be charged the in‑state tuition rate immediately after completing 12 consecutive months presence in this State and continuing so long as the parolee abides in this State."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification, and it shall expire absolutely on July 1, 1982; the act shall not apply to, and no person shall be eligible for the act's special circumstances in-state tuition rate for, any term or semester which will end after July 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1977.