NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1126

SENATE BILL 468

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS AND TO ENABLE THE BOARD TO REDUCE RENTAL FEES.

 

WHEREAS, the many fees charged by the public schools for various purposes are burdensome to many citizens of the State and are believed to be one of the causes of students dropping out of school; and

WHEREAS, an adequate supply of appropriate textbooks is an essential element for a good program of education and for maximum benefits from the total funds invested in the public schools; and

WHEREAS, it is important to the educational program that high school textbook rental charges be reduced and, if possible, eliminated: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  "The State Board of Education may, with the approval of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, transfer and use any unencumbered balance of the State Board of Education as of June 30, 1963, in any funds appropriated to the Board for the fiscal year 1962-63 for the purchase of high school textbooks and thereby enabling the State Board of Education to reduce and, if possible, eliminate the high school textbook rental charge and to improve the supply of currently-adopted high school textbooks in the public schools of the State for the biennium 1963-1965."

Sec. 2.  "The State Board of Education may, with the approval of the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission, transfer and use any unencumbered balance of the State Board of Education as of June 30, 1964, in any funds appropriated to the Board for the fiscal year 1963-64 for the purchase of high school textbooks and thereby enabling the State Board of Education to reduce and, if possible, eliminate the high school textbook rental charge and to improve the supply of currently-adopted high school textbooks in the public schools of the State for the fiscal year 1964-65."

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.