Part I.

Amends GS 115C-595 to allow using scholarship funds from the State Education Assistance Authority (Authority) that have been deposited into a personal education student account for a student with disabilities enrolled in a Part 1 (Private Church Schools and Schools of Religious Charter) or 2 (Qualified Nonpublic Schools) nonpublic school to be used for education-related support services provided by a one-to-one classroom aide (as now defined in GS 115C-591). Sets out documentation requirements and prohibits the one-to-one classroom aide from providing services to other students during the instructional day. The funds cannot be used for services provide by a one-to-one aid who is a parent, guardian, legal custodian, sibling, or grandparent of the student, or who is an employee or independent contractor of the school where the student is enrolled. Applies beginning with the 2026-27 school year.

Part II.

Appropriates $1 million from the General Fund to the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) to be allocated to the Authority to increase the amounts of scholarships for the children of wartime veterans for the 2025-26 academic year up to the full amount allowed by law to the extent those awards were reduced by the Secretary of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs under the award flexibility allowed in Part VI of SL 2025-72. Allows any remaining funds to be used to award additional scholarships to children of wartime veterans beginning in the 2026-27 academic year.

Appropriates $7 million from the General Fund to the UNC BOG in recurring funds for 2026-27 to support additional scholarships for children of wartime veterans beginning in the 2026-27 academic year.

Effective July 1, 2027.