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S540 • 2025

Increase Small County Funding.

Increase Small County Funding.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hanig, Corbin, Sanderson, Brinson, Daniel, Hise, Moffitt
Last action
2025-03-26
Official status
Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget
Effective date
2025-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

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Increase Small County Funding.

Increase Small County Funding.

What This Bill Does

  • Increase Small County Funding.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget

  2. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Withdrawn From Com

  3. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  4. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  5. 2025-03-25 Senate

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Increase Small County Funding.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 540

Short Title: Increase Small County Funding. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Hanig, Corbin, and Sanderson (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 26, 2025
*S540-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE ALLOTMENT AMOUNTS F OR AND PROVIDE 2
ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO THE SMALL COUNTY SCH OOL SYSTEM 3
SUPPLEMENTAL ALLOTMENT. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. G.S. 115C-472.23(a) reads as rewritten: 6
"§ 115C-472.23. Small county school system supplemental funding. 7
(a) Allotment Schedule. – Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section, 8
each eligible county school administrative unit shall receive a dollar allotment according to the 9
following schedule, on the basis of allotted ADM for the county school administrative unit, to 10
the extent funds are made available for this purpose: 11
Allotted ADM Small County Allotment 12
0-1,300 $1,820,000$2,548,000 13
1,301-1,700 $1,774,700$2,484,580 14
1,701-2,000 $1,729,400$2,421,160 15
2,001-2,300 $1,684,100$2,357,740 16
2,301-2,600 $1,638,800$2,294,320 17
2,601-2,800 $1,593,500$2,230,900 18
2,801-3,300 $1,548,200$2,167,480" 19
SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 20
Public Instruction the sum of twenty million nine hundred sixty-one thousand one hundred eighty 21
dollars ($20,961,180) in recurring funds for the 2025 -2026 fiscal year to implement the 22
provisions of this act. 23
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 24