Repeals Section 1(a) of SL 2014-8, as amended by SL 2014-9, which prohibited a local board of education from filing any legal action under GS 115C-426, GS 115C-431, or GS 115C-432 challenging the sufficiency of the funds appropriated by the Union County Board of Commissioners to the local current expense fund, the capital outlay fund, or both (this provision was set to expire upon the adoption of the 2016-17 fiscal year budget by the Union County Board of Commissioners).

Repeals GS 115C-492(b)(2), as amended by SL 2014-9, which required the board of county commissioners to appropriate for the 2015-16 fiscal year at least an amount equal to the local current expense fund appropriation for the 2014-15 budget year plus (i) an inflationary increase based on the most recent annual consumer price index for all urban workers and (ii) any increase in the average daily membership in the local school administrative unit in the first 20 days of the school year from the prior school year, and at $19,786,024 for capital outlay.

Applies to Union County only.