Adds new GS 115C-364.1 requiring local school administrative units and charter schools to allow a child with a disability who attends nonpublic school to enroll part-time to access any courses, programs, or services offered by the local school administrative unit or the charter school, so long as the child is eligible for admission to public school. Defines child with a disability as a child with at least one disability who because of that disability requires special education and related services. Defines disability as including intellectual disability; hearing impairment, including deafness; speech or language impairment; visual impairment, including blindness; serious emotional disturbance; orthopedic impairment; autism; traumatic brain injury; other health impairments, specific learning disability, or other disability as may be required to be included under IDEA. For a child aged 3 through 7, this term also includes developmental delay.

Requires local boards of education (GS 115C-47), local educational agency (GS 115C-107.6), and charter schools (GS 115C-218.45) to allow students with disabilities who attend nonpublic schools to enroll part-time in line with new GS 115C-364.1.

Appropriates $10,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction for 2026-27 to be allocated to local boards of education and charter schools for the administrative costs of implementing the provisions of this act.

Effective July 1, 2026, and applies to requests to begin part-time enrollment in the 2026-27 school year.