Bill Summaries: H531 (2023-2024 Session)

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  • Summary date: Apr 25 2023 - View summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.

    Amends GS 115C-218.45 as follows. Allows a charter school that is unable to fill its current enrollment with students qualified for admission to a public school to enroll out-of-state students who are domicilaries of other sates (was, school age children who are not domiciliaries of the State). Amends the amount of the tuition that may be charged those students, so that it is an amount of at least 50% of the total of the per pupil allocation for the local appropriation for that school year but no more than 100% of the total of the per pupil allocation of the local appropriation for the county in which the charter school is located and the per pupil State appropriation for that school year (was, a tuition amount equal to the per pupil allocation of the local appropriation for the county in which the charter school is located and the per pupil State appropriation for that school year). Adds that a charter school may enroll a foreign exchange student (as defined) as follows. Prohibits enrolling more than two foreign exchange students per high school grades nine through twelve. Allows charging the foreign exchange student the same amount as charged out-of-state students above. Specifies that foreign exchange students do not count towards the enrollment capacity or cap for any program, class, building, or grade level for grades nine through twelve and are not subject to any enrollment lottery process. Makes conforming changes to the act's titles.


  • Summary date: Mar 29 2023 - View summary

    Amends GS 115C-218.45 to allow a charter school that is unable to fill its current enrollment with students qualified for admission to a public school to enroll school age children who are not domiciliaries of the State and charge those students a tuition amount equal to the per pupil allocation of the local appropriation for the county in which the charter school is located and the per pupil State appropriation for that school year. Caps the enrollment of such students at 10% of the total number of students enrolled in the charter school. Applies beginning with the admissions process for the 2024-25 school year.