Bill Text: NC S1375 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

North Carolina Senate Bill 1375 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Kids Voting Funds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-26 - Ref To Com On Appropriations/Base Budget [S1375 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2010-S1375-Amended.html

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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SENATE BILL 1375*

Short Title: Kids Voting Funds.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Nesbitt; Atwater, Dannelly, Garrou, Purcell, and Swindell.
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.

May 26, 2010

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds for the Kids Voting of North Carolina program.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to Kids Voting of North Carolina, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year to be allocated as follows:

(1) $40,000 to be used by the State program to provide services and support and to implement new Kids Voting programs with local support across the State.

(2) $160,000 to be divided on the basis of North Carolina Department of Public Instructions' Average Daily Membership with a minimum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) to assist the following counties with their Kids Voting programs: Alleghany, Beaufort, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Chowan, Clay, Cumberland, Davie, Durham, Forsyth, Greene, Guilford, Haywood, Henderson, Iredell, Jackson, Lee, Madison, Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Pitt, Randolph, and Wake.

SECTION 2. If a county that received funds under subdivision (2) of Section 1 of this act determines it does not need all of its funding, the county may remit any portion of the funds received to the State program for further expansion of the Kids Voting program to nonparticipating counties.

SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2010.