HB 372 — UNC AP Scores & Funds/NCSSM-Morganton Campus.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2019 H 12 HOUSE BILL 372* Committee Substitute Favorable 7/23/19 Short Title:

AdditionalUNC Funds/ECUAP BrodyScores School& ofFunds/NCSSM-Morganton Medicine.Campus.

Representatives Murphy, Humphrey, K.

Smith, and Bell (Primary Sponsors).

For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.

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SECTION1.PART I.

ThereisappropriatedfromtheGeneralFundtotheBoardofGovernorsUNC ofTheUniversityofNorthADVANCED CarolinathesumPLACEMENT offifteenmillionCREDIT dollars($15,000,000)inPOLICIES additionalSECTION recurring1. funds for the 2019-2020 fiscal year to be allocated to East Carolina University (ECU) to support the operation of the Brody School of Medicine at ECU.

SECTIONThe 2.General Assembly commends the Board of Governors of The Universityof North Carolina for adoptinga policyand regulations that standardize the Advanced Placement credit policies across all of the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina.

ThisThe actGeneral becomesAssembly effectivefurther Julysupports 1,and 2019.endorses the actions of the Board of Governors directing all constituent institutions to award appropriate credit to all undergraduates who have earned a score of three or higher on one or more Advanced Placement Exams and only allowing exceptions from this policy if the constituent institution petitions its Board of Trustees with compelling reasons for needing an exception.

*H372-v-1*These actions of the Board of Governors shall create clarity and consistency on the issue of awarding undergraduate credit for Advanced Placement Exams and allow students who have proven that they have completed college-level work byscoringathreeorhigheronthis national exam to completetheirdegrees in amoretimely manner.

By encouraging and rewarding college-level work that is completed in high school, the Board of Governors is creating more educational pathways for students, improving efficiencies, and being good stewards of public monies.

PART II.

FUNDS FOR MORGANTON CAMPUS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH SECTION 2.(a) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina (i) for the 2019-2020 fiscal year, the sum of one million four hundred eight thousand six hundred thirty-two dollars ($1,408,632) in recurring funds and the sum of five thousand one hundred fifty dollars ($5,150) in nonrecurring funds and (ii) for the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the sum of three million three hundred eighty-nine thousand eight hundred twenty dollars ($3,389,820) in recurring funds and the sum of seven hundred ninety-two thousand three hundred sixty-nine dollars ($792,369) in nonrecurring funds to provide funds for staff, operating expenses, and equipment for the Morganton campus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

*H372-v-2* General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2019 SECTION 2.(b) If any provision of this section and G.S.

143C-5-4 are in conflict, the provisions of this section shall prevail.

SECTION 2.(c) The appropriations and the authorizations to allocate and spend funds which are set out in this section shall remain in effect until the Current Operations Appropriations Act for the applicable fiscal year becomes law, at which time that act shall become effective and shall govern appropriations and expenditures.

When the Current Operations Appropriations Act for that fiscal year becomes law, the Director of the Budget shall adjust allotments to give effect to that act from July 1 of the fiscal year.

SECTION 2.(d) This section becomes effective July 1, 2019.

PART III.

EFFECTIVE DATE SECTION 3.

Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law.

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