FINES AND FORFEITURES/PAYMENT TO SCHOOLS.

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View NCGA Bill Details2017-2018 Session
House Bill 554 (Public) Filed Tuesday, April 4, 2017
AN ACT TO DIRECT EXCESS RECEIPTS IN THE CIVIL PENALTY AND FORFEITURE FUND TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY FUND IN THE SAME FISCAL YEAR TO BE USED TOWARD PAYMENT OF THE 2008 COURT JUDGMENT ON CIVIL PENALTIES, FINES, AND FORFEITURES AND TO DIRECT THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION TO STUDY WAYS TO SATISFY THE REMAINDER OF THE JUDGMENT.
Intro. by Saine.

Status: Ref to the Com on Education - K-12, if favorable, Finance (House Action) (Apr 5 2017)
H 554

Bill Summaries:

  • Summary date: Apr 4 2017 - View Summary

    Includes whereas clauses.

    Amends GS 115C-457.3 by adding requiring that any funds in excess of the appropriation made by the General Assembly  under the statute (which requires the General Assembly to appropriate moneys in the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund in the Current Operations Appropriations Act to the State Public School Fund for allotment by the State Board of Education, on behalf of the counties, to local school administrative units on a per pupil basis) for a fiscal year in the Current Operations Appropriations Act to be transferred to the School Technology Fund established in the same fiscal year in which the excess funds are collected.

    Specifies that in any fiscal year in which excess funds are transferred to the School Technology Fund under new GS 115C‑457.3(c), those funds must be allocated to local school administrative units to be credited toward the remaining judgment ordered in North Carolina School Boards Association v. Moore, 98 CVS 14158 (Wake County) until that judgment has been satisfied. 

    Requires the Legislative Research Commission (Commission) to study ways the State of North Carolina shall satisfy the remainder of the judgment ordered in North Carolina School Boards Association v. Moore, including sources of funding to satisfy the judgment and a time line for payments to be made that does not exceed a 10‑year period. Requires the Commission to report the results of its study and its recommendations to the 2017 General Assembly.