GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2003

 

 

SESSION LAW 2004-73

HOUSE BILL 1456

 

 

AN ACT to implement the recommendation of the house interim committee on providing an appropriate education for students on long-term suspension to direct the state board of education to determine a specified percentage of at-risk funds for services to students who are suspended from school for more than ten days.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  The State Board of Education shall recommend a specified percentage of the Alternative Schools/At-Risk Student allotment to be designated for services to be provided to students who have been suspended from school for more than 10 days.  The State Board of Education shall report its recommendation to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by December 15, 2004.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of June, 2004.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Richard T. Morgan

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 4:07 p.m. this 8th day of July, 2004