NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 678

HOUSE BILL 188

 

 

AN ACT TO REPEAL AND AMEND SECTIONS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA.

 

Whereas, the Second Session of the 1973 General Assembly enacted SB 1238 (Chapter 1293 of the Session Laws) which requires the State to provide equal educational opportunities for all of its children; and

Whereas, a Legislative Commission has given close and careful attention to the laws and programs of the public schools; and

Whereas, there is a need to repeal and amend certain provisions of the existing public school laws in order that the State may in fact provide equal educational opportunities; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115-165 is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 115-166, Article 20, is hereby amended as follows: Delete all of the last sentence which begins "Provided further, that any child".

Sec. 3.  G.S. 115, Article 20A, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  G.S. 115-200, Article 24, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  G.S. 115, Article 36, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  G.S. 115, Article 37, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 7.  G.S. 115, Article 38, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 8.  G.S. 115, Article 38C, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 9.  G.S. 115-11.1. Authority to expend funds for transportation of children with special needs. The State Board of Education is authorized to expend public funds or to otherwise provide motor vehicle transportation for children with special needs as those children are defined by G.S. 115-1.1(c). Such transportation may be provided for nonresidential students to and from the nearest public educational institution or sheltered workshop located within the State when said students are full-time equivalent students in the public schools.

Sec. 10.  The General Assembly intends that the State Board of Education shall continue to provide for the transportation of autistic and communications-handicapped and deaf and blind children until June 30, 1976, at which time the Department of Human Resources shall assume the operational and fiscal responsibilities for such transportation.

Sec. 11.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 19th day of June, 1975.