AN ACT to authorize approval of the yadkin valley regional career academy as a cooperative innovative high school for the 2012‑2013 school year.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding the requirement of S.L. 2010‑31, Section 7.21(e), the local boards of education of Davidson County Schools, Thomasville City Schools, and Lexington City Schools and the local board of trustees of Davidson County Community College may apply jointly to establish a cooperative innovative high school program known as the Yadkin Valley Regional Career Academy under Part 9 of Article 16 of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes.  The State Board of Education and State Board of Community Colleges shall consider such application for the 2012‑2013 school year if the application is received by June 15, 2012, and may approve an application for the Yadkin Valley Regional Career Academy without an explicit appropriation from the General Assembly.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of June, 2012.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Thom Tillis
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives