GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

SESSION LAW 2013-57

SENATE BILL 189

AN ACT to amend the law defining home schools.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C-563 reads as rewritten:

"§ 115C-563.  Definitions.

As used in this Part or Parts 1 and 2 of this section:Article:

(a)        "Home school" means a nonpublic school in which one or more consisting of the children of not more than two families or households receive academic instruction from parents or legal guardians, or a member of either household.households, where the parents or legal guardians or members of either household determine the scope and sequence of academic instruction, provide academic instruction, and determine additional sources of academic instruction.

(b)        "Duly authorized representative of the State" means the Director, Division of Nonpublic Education, or his staff."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2013-2014 school year.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24^th day of May, 2013.

                                                    s/  Neal Hunt

                                                         Presiding Officer of the Senate

                                                    s/  Paul Stam

                                                         Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives

                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                         Governor

Approved 4:20 p.m. this 30^th day of May, 2013