Bill Summaries: H1053 (2017-2018 Session)

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  • Bill H 1053 (2017-2018)
    Summary date: May 30 2018 - View summary

    Amends GS 116-280 (containing the definitions for Article 34 concerning need-based scholarships for students attending private institutions of higher education), subsection (4), adjusting the definition of main permanent campus to mean a private postsecondary institution that engages in postsecondary degree activity as defined in GS 116-15, and meets at least one of the following requirements: (1) provides permanent on-premises housing, food services, and classrooms with full-time faculty members and administration or (2) provides classrooms with full-time faculty members and administration if the campus of the school was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools under the standards of the College Delegate Assembly of the Association or by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Education prior to January 1, 2014. Previously, the law did not provide for option (2). 

    Appropriates $1 million in recurring funds for the 2018-19 fiscal year from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina to be allocated to the State Education Assistance Authority for the award of scholarships pursuant to the North Carolina Need-Based Scholarships for Students Attending Private Institutions of Higher Education. 

    Effective July 1, 2018, and applies to the award of scholarships beginning with the 2018-19 academic year.  
    Education, Higher Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, State Agencies, UNC System
    APPROP, GS 116

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