Bill Summaries: H884 (2021)

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  • Bill H 884 (2021-2022)
    Summary date: May 6 2021 - View summary

    Includes whereas clauses.

    Adds new Article 5D, North Carolina State Institute for Public Policy, in GS Chapter 116, providing as follows. Establishes the North Carolina Institute for Public Policy (NCIPP) to provide the State's policymakers with timely, useful, and practical research products. House NCIPP administratively in the School of Public and International Affairs at NC State University (NC State) and requires NC State to provide NCIPP with administrative, professional, and technical support. Requires NCIPP to: 21 (1) conduct and publish research that is directly useful to policymakers and manage reviews and evaluations of technical and scientific topics as they relate to major long-term issues facing the State; (2) evaluate the merits of a program or an activity of a State agency or a program or an activity of a non-State entity conducted or provided using State funds; (3) develop quantitative indicators to be used in an evaluation of a program or an activity of a State agency or a program or an activity of a non-State entity conducted or provided using State funds; and (4) determine the cost of programs or activities of a State agency or programs or activities of a non-State entity conducted or provided using State funds. 

    Establishes the 15-member North Carolina Commission on Public Policy (Commission) to oversee and direct NCIPP's work. Sets out membership, with members serving two year terms, provides for filling vacancies, electing a chair, and compensation. 

    Requires NCIPP to develop a two-year work plan at the beginning of every odd-numbered year that consists of NCGA directed studies as well as other issues of public interest recommended by the Commission. Requires a report upon the completion of each study to the Commission, Governor, and NCGA.

    Appropriates $1,981,165 for 2021-22 from the General Fund to the UNC Board of Governors to be allocated to the School of Public and International Affairs at NC State to be used in the specified amounts to provide: (1) 17 full-time equivalent positions to provide professional, technical, and administrative staff to the NCIPP; and (2) for other operating expenses of NCIPP and the Commission.

    Appropriates $2,117,350 in recurring funds for 2021-22 from the General Fund to the UNC Board of Governors to be allocated to the School of Public and International Affairs at NC State to be used for those same purposes. 

    Effective July 1, 2021.
    Education, Higher Education, Government, Budget/Appropriations, State Agencies, UNC System, State Government
    APPROP, GS 116

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