NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 1013
SENATE BILL 517

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO USE FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE BOARD FOR PUPIL TRANSPORTATION FOR PURPOSES OF PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

Whereas, the Second Session of the 1974 General Assembly enacted G.S. 115-11.1 which required the State Board of Education to provide transportation services to autistic and communications-handicapped and deaf and blind children but did not provide an appropriation therefor; and
Whereas, a legislative commission has determined that the provision of transportation services to only the above identified children denies appropriate and needed transportation services to other children with special needs; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to use funds already appropriated to the board for pupil transportation to provide transportation services to children with special needs.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.