Amends GS 115C-111.2 (allowing public, local educational agencies to contract with private service providers for disability related services) to require the agencies to afford private service providers the opportunity to contract with the agency outside the contracting request for proposal period if all of the following conditions occur: (1) the provider provides services to a student who attends or will attend a school within the local educational agency; (2) the services provided to the student are required by an individualized education program (IEP); (3) the provider meets all licensing criteria required for any other provider contracted by the local educational agency; and (4) the contracted rate is equal to or less than the contracted rate of other providers contracted by the local educational agency.

Amends GS 115C-111.6 (requiring disability services for preschool children with disabilities) to require that a preschool program make all reasonable accommodations for a child to continue to receive services from a licensed provider while enrolled in a preschool program so long as they received those service prior to enrollment and the conditions of GS 115C-111.2 set forth above are met. 

Applies beginning with the 2023-24 school year.