NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1975 SESSION
CHAPTER 875
SENATE BILL 45
AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT OPERATIONS OF STATE DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The appropriations made herein are intended to be for maximum amounts necessary to provide the services and accomplish the purposes described in the budget. It is the intent of the General Assembly that savings shall be effected where the total amounts appropriated shall not be required to perform these services and accomplish these purposes, and that, except as allowed by the Executive Budget Act, or as hereinafter provided, such savings shall be reverted to the appropriate fund at the end of the biennium.
GENERAL FUND
Sec. 2. Appropriations from the General Fund of the State for the maintenance of the State departments, institutions, and agencies, and for other purposes as enumerated are hereby made for the biennium ending June 30, 1977, according to the following schedule:
1975-76 1976-77
General Assembly
Continuation $3,822,139 $5,442,805
Expansion ___ 87,239 ___ 80,259
Total 3,909,378 5,523,064
Judicial Department
Continuation 40,136,213 40,993,108
Expansion _1,323,922 __944,233
Total 41,460,135 41,937,341
The Governor's Office
Continuation 725,249 736,069
Expansion ___68,548 ___68,548
Total 793,797 5,523,064
The Lieutenant Governor
Continuation 129,822 130,143
Expansion ______0 _______0
Total 129,822 130,143
Department of Administration
Continuation 16,960,535 17,479,499
Expansion _1,298,122 _1,039,127
Total 17,258,657 18,518,626
Department of Secretary of State
Continuation 414,739 407,360
Expansion ___14,454 ___14,598
Total 429,193 421,958
Department of State Auditor
Continuation 4,531,637 4,693,427
Expansion _______0 _______0
Total 4,531,637 4,693,427
Department of State Treasurer
Continuation 2,909,863 2,939,518
Expansion __127,320 __122,259
Total 3,036,183 3,062,224
Department of Justice
Continuation 8,569,664 8,754,026
Expansion 1,516,527 _2,341,906
Total 10,086,191 3,062,224
Department of Revenue
Continuation 16,647,019 17,109,343
Expansion __233,105 __379,965
Total 16,880,124 17,489,308
State Board of Elections
Continuation 130,400 133,130
Expansion ______0 ___25,500
Total 130,400 158,630
Department of Military &
Veterans Affairs
Continuation 3,308,649 3,386,414
Expansion __214,280 __198,425
Total 3,522,929 3,584,839
Department of Commerce
Continuation 5,046,539 5,133,902
Expansion _1,397,519 _1,456,124
Total 6,444,058 6,590,026
Department of Insurance
Continuation 2,858,796 2,955,955
Expansion ___87,992 __105,630
Total 2,946,788 3,061,585
Department of Labor
Continuation 2,367,915 2,342,552
Expansion __418,631 __455,319
Total 2,786,546 2,797,871
Department of Correction
Continuation 72,291,675 73,646,741
Expansion _5,231,941 _5,990,535
Total 77,523,616 79,637,276
Department of Public Education
1. Department of Public
Instruction
Continuation 4,736,598 4,791,659
Expansion _______0 _______0
Total 4,736,598 4,791,659
2. State Public School Fund
Continuation 722,409,995 729,798,698
Expansion _19,458,610 _32,778,884
Total 4,736,598 4,791,659
3. State Board of Education
Continuation 2,471,058 2,530,468
Expansion _10,000 _37,000
Total 4,736,598 4,791,659
4. Occupational Education
Continuation 40,415,792 40,485,421
Expansion _______0 _1,010,000
Total 40,415,792 41,495,421
5. Governor's School
Continuation 219,488 219,488
Expansion _______0 _______0
Total 219,488 219,488
6. Purchase of School Buses
Continuation 4,880,921 4,877,816
Expansion _1,644,888 _3,704,118
Total 6,525,809 8,581,934
7. Program of Education
by Television
Continuation 418,640 424,552
Expansion _______0 _______0
Total 418,640 424,552
8. Advancement School
Grant-in-aid _186,452 _______0
Total 186,452 0
9. School Food Service
Continuation 3,593,057 3,897,226
Expansion _______0 _______0
Total 3,593,057 3,897,226
10. Professional Improvement
Of Teachers
Continuation 968,398 970,090
Expansion _150,000 _150,000
Total 1,118,398 1,120,090
11. Planning Research & Development
Continuation 120,532 0
Expansion _______0 _______0
Total 120,532 0
12. Evaluation & Assessment
Continuation 750,467 498,599
Expansion _______0 _______0
Total 750,467 498,599
Subtotal-Public Schools
Continuation 781,171,398 788,494,017
Expansion _21,263,498 _37,680,002
Total 802,434,896 826,174,019
Department of Community Colleges
1. Dept. of Community Colleges
Continuation 92,997,457 93,060,177
Expansion __5,016,652 __8,001,742
Total 98,014,109 101,061,919
2. Department of Community Colleges |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Equipment |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
4,516,458 |
4,516,458 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
1,687,000 |
2,288,750 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Special Equipment |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Cape Fear Technical Institute |
60,000 |
80,000 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Haywood Technical Institute |
140,000 |
60,000 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Wilson Technical Institute |
635,000 |
562,500 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Institutional Equipment |
852,800 |
1,586,250 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
6,204,258 |
6,805,208 |
|||||||||||||||||||
3. Vocational Textile School |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
258,220 |
262,580 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
258,220 |
262,580 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal-Community Colleges |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
97,772,135 |
97,839,215 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
6,704,452 |
10,290,492 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
104,476,587 |
108,129,707 |
|||||||||||||||||||
The University of North Carolina |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Board of Governors |
|||||||||||||||||||||
1. General Administration |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
3,431,624 |
3,624,023 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
3,431,624 |
3,624,023 |
|||||||||||||||||||
2. Lump Sum appropriations |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,278,408 |
1,278,408 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
13,580,674 |
23,406,541 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Institutional Programs |
11,966,590 |
20,796,398 |
|||||||||||||||||||
East Carolina University |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Medical School |
1,442,278 |
2,363,337 |
|||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina Central |
|||||||||||||||||||||
University Law School |
75,000 |
150,000 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Vocational Rehabilitation |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Center |
96,806 |
96,806 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
14,859,082 |
24,684,949 |
|||||||||||||||||||
3. Related Educational Programs |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
8,012,165 |
8,416,302 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
4,700,000 |
5,489,380 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
12,712,165 |
13,905,682 |
|||||||||||||||||||
University of North Carolina at |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Chapel Hill |
|||||||||||||||||||||
1. Academic Affairs |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
35,799,589 |
38,841,834 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
35,799,589 |
38,841,834 |
|||||||||||||||||||
2. Division of Health Affairs |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
23,173,017 |
23,414,702 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
23,173,017 |
23,414,702 |
|||||||||||||||||||
3. Area Health Education Centers |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
5,928,303 |
5,939,673 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
5,928,303 |
5,939,673 |
|||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina State University |
|||||||||||||||||||||
at Raleigh |
|||||||||||||||||||||
1. Academic Affairs |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
32,252,700 |
33,211,229 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Total |
32,252,700 |
33,211,229 |
|||||||||||||||||||
2. Industrial Extension Service |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
718,430 |
720,894 |
|||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|||||||||||||||||||
3. Agricultural Experiment |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Station |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
11,100,524 |
11,245,097 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
11,100,524 |
11,245,097 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
4. Agricultural Extension |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Service |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
8,461,729 |
8,546,525 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
University of North Carolina |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
at Greensboro |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
13,869,353 |
14,076,228 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
13,869,353 |
14,076,228 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
University of North Carolina |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
at Charlotte |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
11,172,619 |
11,326,467 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
11,172,619 |
11,326,467 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
University of North Carolina |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
at Asheville |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
2,485,609 |
2,518,595 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,485,609 |
2,518,595 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
University of North Carolina |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
at Wilmington |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
4,783,686 |
4,903,332 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
4,783,686 |
4,903,332 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
East Carolina University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
17,407,742 |
17,702,641 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
17,407,742 |
17,702,641 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina Agricultural |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
& Technical State University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
8,193,303 |
8,444,705 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
8,193,303 |
8,444,705 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Western Carolina University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
9,070,276 |
9,175,637 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
9,070,276 |
9,175,637 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Appalachian State University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
12,950,545 |
13,254,447 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
12,950,545 |
13,254,447 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Pembroke State University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
3,242,805 |
3,311,595 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
3,242,805 |
3,311,495 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Winston-Salem State University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
3,458,257 |
3,552,001 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
3,458,257 |
3,552,001 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Elizabeth City State University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
2,760,569 |
2,801,554 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,760,569 |
2,801,554 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Fayetteville State University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
3,484,010 |
3,578,616 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
3,484,010 |
3,578,616 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina Central University |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
7,236,592 |
7,344,356 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
7,236,592 |
7,344,356 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina School of the Arts |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,861,995 |
1,938,985 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,861,995 |
1,938,985 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
North Carolina Memorial Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
16,405,175 |
17,154,578 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
16,405,175 |
17,154,578 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal-University of North Carolina |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
248,539,025 |
256,322,424 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
18,280,674 |
28,895,921 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
266,819,699 |
285,218,345 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Department of Cultural Resources |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
9,746,722 |
9,845,180 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
751,134 |
526,056 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
10,497,856 |
10,371,236 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Department of Transportation |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
& Highway Safety |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
1. State Ports Authority |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
292,504 |
292,504 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
292,504 |
292,504 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
2. Aid to Airports |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
126,027 |
119,379 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,126,027 |
2,119,379 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
3. Grants - Mass Transit |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
4. Teaching of Certifying Breath |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Test Operators |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
159,572 |
166,399 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
159,572 |
166,399 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal-Department of |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Transportation & Highway Safety |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,292,504 |
2,292,504 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
1,285,599 |
1,785,778 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,578,103 |
4,078,282 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Department of Human Resources |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
1. Departmental Administration |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
and Support |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,982,444 |
2,013,382 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
334,665 |
334,665 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,317,109 |
2,348,047 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
2. Health Services |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
22,070,400 |
22,305,746 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
3,151,838 |
5,290,111 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
25,222,238 |
27,595,857 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
3. Services for the Blind |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
3,172,966 |
3,190,280 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
167,800 |
332,664 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
3,340,766 |
3,522,944 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
4. Vocational Rehabilitation |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
4,937,542 |
5,107,595 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
206,837 |
204,982 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
5,144,379 |
5,312,577 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
5. Mental Health Services |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
(a) Administration and Grants-in-aid |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
29,197,314 |
28,449,639 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
1,650,000 |
1,852,099 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
30,847,314 |
30,301,738 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(b) Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center, |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Black Mountain |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,400,227 |
1,449,325 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
25,000 |
35,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,425,227 |
1,484,325 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
( c ) Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Butner |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
995,635 |
1,027,343 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
5,000 |
5,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,000,635 |
1,032,343 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(d) Walter B. Jones Alcoholic |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Rehabilitation Center, Greenville |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,004,774 |
1,036,495 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
10,000 |
10,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,014,774 |
1,046,495 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
( e ) Dorothea Dix Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
15,569,442 |
15,770,388 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
110,250 |
147,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
15,679,692 |
15,917,388 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(f) Broughton Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
11,522,498 |
12,078,121 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
173,248 |
231,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
11,695,746 |
12,309,121 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(g) Western Carolina Center |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
7,783,784 |
8,017,810 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
187,000 |
250,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
7,970,454 |
8,267,810 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(h) Cherry Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
13,117,578 |
13,405,663 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
89,250 |
119,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
13,206,828 |
13,524,663 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(i) O'Berry Center |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
6,408,300 |
6,488,878 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
196,350 |
262,500 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
6,604,650 |
6,751,378 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(j) John Umstead Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
10,715,974 |
10,962,197 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
152,252 |
203,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
10,868,226 |
11,165,197 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(k) Murdoch Center |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
10,987,585 |
10,969,004 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
252,450 |
337,500 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
11,240,035 |
11,306,504 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(l) Caswell Center |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
10,868,761 |
10,970,455 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
299,200 |
400,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
11,167,961 |
11,370,455 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(m) Wright School |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
550,218 |
561,954 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
550,218 |
561,954 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
6. North Carolina Orthopedic |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
911,248 |
928,465 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
911,248 |
928,465 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
7. Lenox D. Baker Cerebral |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Palsy & Crippled Children's |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Hospital of North Carolina |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
655,804 |
679,748 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
29,100 |
29,100 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
684,904 |
708,848 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
8. Confederate Women's Home |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
95,269 |
95,269 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
95,269 |
95,269 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
9. North Carolina Specialty |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Hospitals |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
(a) General Administrative Office |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
237,854 |
246,236 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
237,854 |
246,236 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(b) McCain Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
2,696,901 |
2,702,538 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,696,901 |
2,702,538 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
( c ) Western Carolina Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
2,617,099 |
2,577,944 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,617,099 |
2,577,944 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
(d) Eastern North Carolina Hospital |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
2,723,257 |
2,659,761 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,723,257 |
2,659,761 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
10. North Carolina School for the Deaf |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
3,414,642 |
3,444,992 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
163,334 |
166,554 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
3,577,976 |
3,611,546 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
11. Eastern North Carolina |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
School for the Deaf |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,958,424 |
2,016,554 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
21,278 |
22,148 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,979,702 |
2,038,702 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
12. Central North Carolina |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
School for the Deaf |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,469,177 |
1,418,958 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
43,252 |
71,093 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,512,429 |
1,490,051 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
13. Governor Morehead School |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
2,376,748 |
2,413,152 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,376,748 |
2,413,152 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
14. Facility Services |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
5,858,504 |
5,817,431 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
411,913 |
422,088 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
6,270,417 |
6,239,519 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
15. Social Services |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
77,823,696 |
77,079,152 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
19,844,670 |
28,521,076 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
97,668,366 |
105,600,228 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
16. State Aid to Non-State |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Health & Welfare Agencies |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
2,495,232 |
2,495,232 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
199,779 |
199,779 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,695,011 |
2,695,011 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Subtotal-Department of |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Human Resources |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
257,618,967 |
258,379,707 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
27,724,466 |
39,446,359 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
285,343,433 |
297,826,066 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Department of Natural & Economic |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Resources |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
23,421,276 |
23,865,418 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
1,068,512 |
1,304,324 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
24,489,788 |
25,169,742 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Department of Agriculture |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
13,339,874 |
13,618,129 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
303,494 |
181,099 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
13,643,368 |
13,799,228 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Debt Service-Interest |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
15,900,615 |
20,819,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
15,900,615 |
20,819,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Debt Service-Redemption |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
18,970,000 |
21,300,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
18,970,000 |
21,300,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Contingency & Emergency |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
2,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Salary Adjustments of State Employees |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
600,000 |
600,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
600,000 |
600,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Reserve for Retirement |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
2,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,000,000 |
2,000,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Reserve for Cost Increase |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Utilities & Fuel |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
4,350,000 |
4,350,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
4,350,000 |
4,350,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Reserve for Cost Increase Postage |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
250,000 |
250,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
250,000 |
250,000 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Reserve for Salary Increase |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
for certain employees not subject |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
to the Personnel Act: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
College Academic Personnel EPA |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
834,827 |
1,669,654 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Community College Personnel EPA: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
1,475,572 |
2,951,144 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
2,310,399 |
4,620,798 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Reserve to provide for |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
one month's salary |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
for deleted positions |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
0 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
300,000 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
300,000 |
0 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
TOTAL GENERAL FUND |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Continuation |
1,651,222,370 |
1,681,659,586 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Expansion |
98,611,828 |
144,553,704 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Total |
1,749,834,198 |
1,826,213,290 |
|
||||||||||||||||||
HIGHWAY FUND
Sec. 3. Appropriations from the Highway Fund of the State for the expense of collecting revenues, for the service of the highway debt, and for the maintenance of the transportation-related activities, are hereby made for the biennium ending June 30, 1977, according to the following schedule:
TRANSPORTATION
1975-76 1976-77
A. Department of Transportation |
$393,789,661 |
$374,005,979 |
|||||||
1. General Administration |
|||||||||
a. Policy & Program Direction |
555,688 |
556,408 |
|||||||
b. Central Management & Service |
8,669,107 |
8,972,723 |
|||||||
c. Transportation Planning |
780,930 |
775,040 |
|||||||
d. Transportation Safety |
10,271,593 |
10,626,144 |
|||||||
2. Highways |
|||||||||
a. General Management |
1,353,856 |
1,352,210 |
|||||||
b. Engineering Management |
14,883,381 |
14,641,316 |
|||||||
c. State Construction |
|||||||||
1. Primary Construction |
41,006,395 |
21,280,912 |
|||||||
2. Secondary Construction |
|||||||||
(a) Statewide |
0 |
0 |
|||||||
(b) Safety Improvements |
100,000 |
100,000 |
|||||||
(c ) County |
30,000,000 |
30,000,000 |
|||||||
3. Urban Construction |
16,067,997 |
10,573,649 |
|||||||
4. Access & Public Roads |
1,500,000 |
1,500,000 |
|||||||
5. Bridge Replacements |
5,000,000 |
5,000,000 |
|||||||
d. State Funds to Match |
|||||||||
Federal Highway Aid- |
|||||||||
Planning Survey & |
|||||||||
Highway Planning Research |
1,356,526 |
1,367,714 |
|||||||
e. State Funds to Match Federal |
|||||||||
Highway Aid-Construction |
44,595,615 |
44,595,614 |
|||||||
f. State Maintenance |
|||||||||
1. Primary |
39,360,480 |
43,624,655 |
|||||||
2. Secondary |
64,847,320 |
64,301,380 |
|||||||
3. Urban |
11,679,066 |
11,974,892 |
|||||||
g. Ferry Operations |
7,355,235 |
4,564,901 |
|||||||
h. State Aid to Municipalities |
29,750,000 |
29,375,000 |
|||||||
3. Mass Transportation Planning |
102,454 |
118,457 |
|||||||
4. Revenue Collection & Vehicle Regulation |
13,418,783 |
13,457,175 |
|||||||
5. State Highway Patrol |
24,686,680 |
24,697,052 |
|||||||
6. Reserve and Transfers |
|||||||||
a. Merit Salary Increments |
|||||||||
b. Employers Retirement |
|||||||||
Contribution for central offices |
|||||||||
& Division of Highways |
9,975,109 |
9,994,282 |
|||||||
c. Highway Fund Contribution |
|
||||||||
to the Law Enforcement |
|
||||||||
Officers Retirement Fund |
1,330,000 |
1,435,000 |
|
||||||
d. Employers Social Security |
|
||||||||
Contribution for the central |
|
||||||||
offices and the Division of |
|
||||||||
Highways |
6,115,903 |
6,127,080 |
|
||||||
e. Employers Contribution for |
|
||||||||
Hospital/Medical Insurance |
|
||||||||
central offices & Division of |
|
||||||||
Highways |
1,918,956 |
1,922,856 |
|
||||||
f. Disability & Salary |
|
||||||||
Continuation for the central offices |
|
||||||||
and the Division of Highways |
442,834 |
443,736 |
|
||||||
g. Reimbursement to the |
|
||||||||
Department of Revenue for |
|
||||||||
Gasoline Tax Collection |
680,803 |
690,642 |
|
||||||
h. Reserve for Implementation of |
|
||||||||
the Occupational Health and |
|
||||||||
Safety Act |
375,000 |
375,000 |
|
||||||
B. Other Highway Fund: (Total) |
26,905,839 |
26,194,021 |
|
||||||
1. Debt Service |
23,776,500 |
23,156,000 |
|
||||||
2. Salary Adjustments for |
|
||||||||
Highway Fund Positions |
1,000,000 |
1,000,000 |
|
||||||
3. Reserve for Contingencies |
500,000 |
500,000 |
|
||||||
4. Reserve for Increased |
|
||||||||
Retirement Benefits |
220,000 |
220,000 |
|
||||||
5. Department of Commerce for |
|
||||||||
Transportation Inspection |
415,659 |
418,658 |
|
||||||
6. Department of Agriculture for |
|
||||||||
Gasoline Inspection |
993,680 |
899,363 |
|
||||||
TOTAL HIGHWAY FUND |
$420,695,500 |
$400,200,000 |
|
||||||
Transfers may be made by authorization of the director of the budget from Section 3, Title A 2.a. and b. to Title A 2.c(l), c(2)(a), c(2)(b), c(2)(c), c(3), c(4), A 2.d., and A 2.e. Transfers may be made by authorization of the director of the budget from Section 3, Title A 2.c(l), c(3), c(4), A 2.d. and A 2.e. to Title A 2.a. and A 2.b., provided that the original appropriation from which the transfer is made shall not be reduced by more than ten percent (10%), and provided further that transfers to Title A 2.a. and A 2.b. for the purpose of providing additional positions, shall be approved by the Advisory Budget Commission. Transfers of appropriations within subparagraphs A 2.c. (1), c(2), c(3), c(4), A 2.d., A 2.e., A 2.f(l), f(2), f(3), and A 2.g., shall be governed by the provisions of G.S. 136-44.2. Allocations may be made from the Reserve for Contingencies by authorization of the Governor and Council of State. In the event the revenue exceeds the Highway Fund appropriation made herein, the excess will be allocated to construction of the three highway systems in the same proportional amounts as appropriated.
In the event the revenue is less than the appropriations, State funded construction appropriations in the Primary, Secondary, and Urban systems shall be reduced up to the extent necessary to maintain a viable highway maintenance program.
The Controller of the Department of Transportation and Highway Safety is hereby directed to allocate at the beginning of each fiscal year from the various appropriations in Section 3 under Titles A 2.c, A 2.d., A 2.e., A 2.f., and A 2.g. herein made to the Office of Highways, sufficient funds to eliminate all overdrafts on State maintenance and construction projects, and such allocations may not be diverted to other purposes.
In the event the availability of federal funds or the rate of federal matching for any program under the federal aid construction program is changed during any part of the 1975-77 biennium, the director of the budget may authorize transfers in Section 3 between Title A 2.c, State construction, A 2.f., State maintenance, A 2.d., State funds to match federal aid highway planning survey and highway planning research, and A 2.e., State funds to match federal aid construction, or within the affected federal aid programs, of sufficient funds to provide adequate matching for federal aid construction funds; provided that no transfers shall be made from Title A 2.c.(2), secondary construction, or A 2.f.(2), secondary maintenance, for this purpose.
During each fiscal year, the director of the budget, upon recommendation of the Board of Transportation, may authorize establishment of a reserve for school and industrial access roads and emergencies as provided for by G.S. 136-44.2, and other required reserves.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this act or any other provision of the law, no transfers shall be made from the appropriation for secondary road county construction, nor shall that appropriation be reduced by any amount, except by a reduction, uniformly applicable to all highway construction appropriations made necessary by reduction in revenues.
Sec. 4. General Statute 20-7(j) is hereby rewritten to read as follows: "The fees collected under this section and G.S. 20-14 shall be placed in the Highway Fund."
General Statute 20-85 is hereby amended by deleting the last sentence thereof.
General Statute 20-183.7 is hereby amended by rewriting the last sentence thereof as follows: "The Department of Motor Vehicles shall receive thirty-five cents (35¢) for each inspection certificate, and these proceeds shall be placed in the Highway Fund."
Sec. 5. Of the three hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($375,000) appropriated for the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in the Department of Transportation, one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars($175,000) shall be transferred to the Department of Labor to administer the OSHA program in the Department of Transportation.
Sec. 6. It is the intent of the General Assembly that funds appropriated herein for regional and divisional personnel offices and related expenses shall be used only for those personnel officers who function in a staff or subordinate role to the Assistant Chief Engineers or Division Engineers.
Sec. 7. Highway Fund appropriations shall not be transferred to the State Board of Education to supplement the annual vehicle registration tax collected under the provision of G.S. 20-88.1.
Sec. 8. In each year that an appropriation bill is considered by the General Assembly, the Department of Transportation shall make a report to the appropriations committee of each house on all services provided by the department to the public for which a fee is charged. The report shall include an analysis of the cost of each service and the fee charged for that service.
Sec. 9. Any balances remaining in the "Drivers License Fund", the "Safety Equipment Inspection Fund" and the "Lien Recording Fund" on July 1, 1975, shall be placed in the Highway Fund.
Funds appropriated by previous General Assemblies from the Highway Fund to the Governor's Highway Safety Program in the amount of one million nine hundred eighty thousand dollars ($1,980,000) which are not now obligated are hereby reverted and reapplied to meet Highway Fund appropriations authorized in this act.
Sec. 10. There is hereby appropriated out of funds available in the various Special Funds sufficient amounts to carry on required activities included under each fund's operations subject to provisions of the Executive Budget Act, Chapter 143, Article 1, General Statutes of North Carolina.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 11. All insurance and all official fidelity and surety bonds authorized for the several departments, institutions, and agencies shall be effected and placed by the Insurance Department, and the cost of such placement shall be paid by the department, institution, or agency involved upon bills rendered to and approved by the Insurance Commissioner.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 12. Appropriations in Section 2 for services provided, in accordance with Title XIX of the Social Security Act (Medicaid) are intended for both the categorically needy and the medically needy. Funds appropriated for such services are to be expended in accordance with the following schedule of services and payment rates:
Services Payment Rate
In-Patient Hospital Allowable costs.
Out-Patient Hospital 90 percent of allowable costs.
State Mental and Specialty
Hospitals & Mental
Retardation Centers Allowable costs ("Fair" compensation).
(All Medicaid services
including mental, medical,
intermediate care & skilled
nursing care)
Skilled Nursing Facilities Allowable costs up to $25.00
(SNF) per day.
Drugs Average national wholesale drug cost plus $2.50 professional service fee per prescription per month.
Physicians 90 percent of allowable usual & customary charges.
Chiropractors 90 percent of allowable usual & customary charges.
Dental 90 percent of allowable usual & customary charges.
Home Health Allowable Costs.
Optical Services 90 percent of allowable usual & customary charges.
Medicare Buy-in Actual premium.
Public Health Clinics Allowable Costs.
Ambulance Services 100 percent of allowable, reasonable, usual & customary charges.
Pre-21 Screening Allowable costs.
Hearing Aids 80 percent usual, customary, & reasonable charges (including dispensing fee).
Mental Health Clinics Allowable costs (federal portion only; nonfederal share covered by State/local operating funds.)
Intermediate Care Facilities Allowable costs
Family Planning Allowable costs (See specific services, i.e., Physician, Clinic, etc.).
Independent Laboratory
& X-Ray Services 90 percent of allowable usual & customary charges.
Optical Supplies 100 percent of reasonable wholesale cost of materials.
Any changes in services or rates of payment in the Medicaid Program must be approved by the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission.
It is the intent of the General Assembly that the State will pay eighty-five percent (85%) and the counties will pay fifteen percent (15%) of the nonfederal costs of applicable services herein listed or a prepaid premium if Medicaid Services and related administrative costs are paid for by a health-insuring contractor.
It is the further intent of this General Assembly that, as allowed by federal regulations, recipient co-payments shall be required for services under Medicaid as follows:
Eligibility Co-Payment for
Categorically Medically Each Occasion
Service Needy Needy of Service
In-Patient Hospital x $ 2.00
Out-Patient Hospital x 1.00
Physicians x 1.00
Optometrists x 1.00
Drugs x x .50
Dental x x 2.00
Chiropractors x x 1.00
Optical Services x x 2.00
Maximum net family annual income eligibility standards for Medicaid shall be as follows; any change must be approved by the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission.
Categorically Medically
Family Size Needy Needy
1 $1,452 $1,700
2 1,908 2,200
3 2,196 2,500
4 2,400 2,800
5 2,628 3,000
6 2,832 3,200
7 3,036 3,400
8 3,168 3,600
9 3,300 3,800
10 3,480 4,000
11 3,660 4,200
12 3,840 4,400
13 4,020 4,600
Sec. 13. Providers of medical services under the offering medical care to citizens of the State shall be reimbursed at the same rates as those provided under the Medicaid program. This provision relates specifically to the Crippled Children and Maternal and Child Health programs and the Chronic Disease Section of the Division of Health Services, services under Vocational Rehabilitation and services for the blind under the Department of Human Resources.
Maximum net family annual income eligibility standards for services in these programs shall be as follows; any change must be approved by the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission.
Maternal and Child
Care, Cancer Blind
Family Size Migrant Health Kidney Rehabilitation
1 $4,200 $6,400 3,600
2 5,300 8,000 4,800
3 6,400 9,600 5,700
4 7,500 11,000 6,300
5 7,900 12,000 6,900
6 8,300 12,800 7,500
7 8,800 13,600 8,100
8 9,300 14,400 8,700
9 9,800 15,200 9,300
10 10,300 16,000 9,900
11 10,900
12 11,400
13 12,000
Medical Eye Medical Eye Care
Care Blind Blind Pre-School & Vocational
Family Size Adults School Children Rehabilitation
1 $1,800 $4,200 $2,568
2 2,520 5,300 4,260
3 3,180 6,400 5,052
4 3,600 7,500 6,204
5 3,960 7,900 7,104
6 4,320 8,300 7,814
7 4,680 8,800 8,524
8 5,040 9,300 9,235
9 9,800 9,945
10 10,300 10,656
11 10,900 11,366
12 11,400 12,076
13 12,000 12,787
Sec. 14. Appropriations made herein for health programs not covered under Medicaid are intended to provide for the purchase of medical services for a full twelve-month period for eligible recipients under these programs. If during the fiscal year, expenditures in these programs indicate that the funds may be insufficient for a full twelve months, the Department of Human Resources shall adjust the eligibility requirements for participation in these programs to the end that the appropriations are sufficient.
Sec. 15. Appropriations made herein to the Division of Mental Health Services for community mental health programs, as authorized by G.S. 122-35.1, are intended to be for both out-patient and in-patient services.
Sec. 16. It is the intent of this General Assembly that non-State health and welfare agencies submit their appropriation requests for grants-in-aid through the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources for recommendations to the Governor and the Advisory Budget Commission and the General Assembly, and that agencies receiving these grants, at the request of the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources, provide a post-audit of their operations that has been done by a certified public accountant.
Sec. 17. The Department of Human Resources is authorized and directed to utilize any funds available to the department by reason of increased Social Security and/or Supplemental Security Income checks to General Assistance recipients, and consequent reduction in the amounts otherwise required as supplementary State funds, to provide increased payments for those General Assistance recipients receiving family care, rest home, and attendant care services.
Sec. 18. It is the intent and purpose of this act to establish a more adequate level of direct patient care in each of the mental health institutions. Positions recommended for direct patient care in the budget shall not be reclassified and funds shall not be reallocated to non-direct patient-care activities.
Sec. 19. Appropriations made herein to the Department of Community Colleges for equipment and library books are made for each year of the biennium, and all unencumbered appropriations shall revert to the General Fund twelve months after the close of the fiscal year for which they were appropriated. Encumbered balances or unliquidated obligations outstanding at the end of this period shall be handled in accordance with existing State budget policies.
Sec. 20. Funds appropriated herein to the State Department of Public Education, Department of Community Colleges, as operating expenses for allocation to the institutions comprising the Community College System shall not be used to support recreation extension courses. The financing of such courses by any institution shall be on a self-supporting basis and contact hours produced from such activities shall not be counted when computing full-time equivalent students for use in budget-funding formulas at the State level.
Sec. 21. Each stipend recipient in the Department of Community Colleges Administrator Training Program shall serve public post-secondary education in North Carolina two months for every one month on stipend, or repay a pro rata share of the State funds received.
Sec. 22. For the purposes of determining the system-wide number of curriculum instructional unit positions each year, the total curriculum and extension full-time equivalent student enrollment shall be divided by 23.
Sec. 23. Funds appropriated in Section 2 for the Department of Community Colleges to increase support for supplies and materials shall be used to increase the formulas by which supplies and materials funds are allocated to the institutions and shall not be used to change any other allocation formulas. All other funds appropriated for operating costs of the community colleges and technical institutes are intended to support student enrollment at the per student rate provided by the formulas adopted by the State Board of Education for the preceding year and shall not be used to increase the formulas by which fund allocations will be determined.
Sec. 24. Funds appropriated herein to the Department of Community Colleges to provide financial assistance to hospital programs of nursing education leading to diplomas in nursing which are fully accredited by the North Carolina Board of Nursing and operated under the authority of a public or nonprofit hospital licensed by the North Carolina Medical Care Commission shall be distributed, upon application for financial assistance, on the basis of eight hundred fifty dollars ($850.00) for each student duly enrolled in the program as of December 1 of the preceding year and on condition that accreditation is maintained. The State Board of Education shall make such rules and regulations as are necessary to ensure that this financial assistance is used directly for faculty and instructional needs of diploma nursing programs.
Sec. 25. Funds appropriated to the State Department of Public Education for the purchase of elementary basic textbooks shall be permanent appropriations, and unexpended portions of these appropriations shall not revert to the General Fund at the end of the biennium.
Sec. 26. Funds appropriated in Section 2 to the State Department of Public Education for clerical assistance in the public schools and for instructional personnel in psychological and guidance counseling, health and social services, reading, mathematics, and cultural arts shall be allocated to local administrative units according to formulas in effect on June 30, 1975. The State Board of Education shall require local administrative units to provide evidence that the expenditure of local funds for each such purpose is no less than the amount expended per pupil in average daily membership for each such purpose during the prior year. At the discretion of the State Board of Education, funds appropriated under this act may be withheld to ensure that supplanting of local funds does not occur. The State Board of Education is empowered to waive this requirement upon evidence provided by the local administrative units that compliance will result in inefficient use of funds and that the overall per pupil expenditure from local funds for instructional purposes is no less than the overall per pupil expenditure from local funds for such purposes in the preceding fiscal year.
Sec. 27. Funds appropriated in Section 2 of this act to the State Department of Public Education for the development of health, physical education, and athletic activities shall be allocated by the State Board of Education to local administrative units on the basis of average daily membership in kindergarten through grade six.
Sec. 28. Funds appropriated in Section 2 to the State Department of Public Education to replace lost federal receipts shall be utilized only for existing programs that experience a loss in federal funding and any amounts not so required shall revert to the General Fund.
Sec. 29. Funds appropriated herein to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for continuation of financial assistance to the medical schools of Duke University and Wake Forest University shall be disbursed on certifications of the respective schools of medicine that show the number of North Carolina residents as first-, second-, third- and fourth-year students in the school as of November 1, 1975, and November 1, 1976. Disbursement to Wake Forest University shall be made in the amount of eight thousand dollars ($8,000) for each such student, one thousand dollars ($1,000) of which shall be placed by the school in a fund to be used to provide financial aid to needy North Carolina students who are enrolled in the school, provided that the maximum aid given to any student from this fund in a given year shall not exceed the amount of the difference in tuition and academic fees charged by the school and those charged at the School of Medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Disbursement to Duke University shall be made in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each such student, five hundred dollars ($500.00) of which shall be placed by the school in a fund to be used to provide student financial aid to financially needy North Carolina students who are enrolled in the school, provided that no individual student shall be awarded assistance from this fund in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) each year. In addition to this basic disbursement for each year of the 1975-77 biennium, a disbursement of one thousand dollars ($1,000) shall be made for each such student in the first-year class to the extent that the enrollment of the first-year class exceeds 30 North Carolina students in the 1975-76 fiscal year. In the 1976-77 fiscal year, the additional disbursement of one thousand dollars ($1,000) shall be made for each such student in the first- and second-year class to the extent that enrollment of each class exceeds 30 North Carolina students.
The Board of Governors shall establish the criteria for determining the eligibility for financial aid of needy North Carolina students who are enrolled in the schools and shall review the grants or awards to said eligible students. The Board of Governors shall promulgate regulations for determining which students are residents of North Carolina for the purposes of these programs. The Board shall also make such regulations as it may deem desirable to insure that these funds are used directly for instruction in the medical programs of the schools and not for religious or other nonpublic purposes. The Board shall encourage the two schools to orient students towards personal health care in North Carolina giving special emphasis to family and community medicine.
Sec. 30. Funds appropriated in this act to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for aid to private colleges shall be disbursed in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 116-19, G.S. 116-21, and G.S. 116-22. These funds are intended to provide up to two hundred dollars ($200.00) per full-time equivalent North Carolina undergraduate student enrolled at a private institution as of October 1 each year.
In addition to any funds appropriated pursuant to G.S. 116-19 and in addition to all other financial assistance made available to private educational institutions located within the State, or to students attending such institutions, there is hereby granted to each full-time North Carolina undergraduate student attending an approved institution, as defined in G.S. 116-22, the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per academic year, which shall be distributed to the student as hereinafter provided.
The tuition grants provided for herein shall be administered by the State Education Assistance Authority pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the State Education Assistance Authority not inconsistent with this act. The State Education Assistance Authority shall not approve any grant until there has been received from an appropriate officer of the approved institution a certification that the student applying for said grant is an eligible student. Upon receipt of such certification, in proper form, the State Education Assistance Authority shall remit, at such times as it shall prescribe, said grant to the approved institution on behalf and to the credit of such student.
In the event a student on whose behalf a grant has been paid shall not be enrolled and carrying a minimum academic load as of the tenth classroom day following the beginning of the school term for which such grant was paid, the institution shall refund to the State Education Assistance Authority the amount of grant paid on behalf of such student for such term. Each approved institution shall be subject to examination by the State Auditor for the purpose of determining whether such institution has properly certified eligibility and enrollment of students and credited grants paid in the behalf of such students.
In the event there are not sufficient funds to provide each eligible student with a full grant, each eligible student shall receive a reduced but equal share of funds then available for the remainder of the academic year within the fiscal period covered by the current appropriation.
Expenditures made pursuant to this section shall be used for secular educational purposes only. If any provision of this section or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this section which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this section are declared to be severable.
Sec. 31. Within the limits of the appropriations made in Section 2 to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina, community hospitals are to be awarded grants in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) per year for each certified residency that is established and filled and that represents an increase over the number of certified residencies at those hospitals as of June 30, 1974, in the fields of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology.
Sec. 32. The Board of Governors is urged to utilize the funds appropriated in Section 2 for institutional programs to maintain accreditation of the North Carolina Central University Law School; to obtain accreditation of the East Carolina University School of Medicine; to provide for scheduled enrollment increases in the Division of Health Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill, East Carolina University, and in other health-related programs on other campuses of the University; and to provide for the planned expansion of the Area Health Education Centers.
Sec. 33. The balance, as of June 30, 1975, of the seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($7,500,000) appropriated in Chapter 562 of the 1973 Session Laws to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina as a reserve to establish an additional degree-granting school of medicine within The University of North Carolina and carried forward by Chapter 1190 of the 1973 Session Laws, and the balance, as of June 30, 1975, of the seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($7,500,000) appropriated in Chapter 1190 of the 1973 Session Laws as a reserve for the purposes outlined in Section 46 of that act, are hereby carried forward as a non-reverting special fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina, which shall be available for current operation or capital improvement expenditures, or both, in support of the development of a degree-granting school of medicine within The University of North Carolina, heretofore authorized by the Board of Governors at East Carolina University. These funds may be used for, but are not limited to, expenditures for the planning and construction of clinical and other educational facilities to support the medical education program in buildings of the Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
If these funds are used for such purposes, any alterations or construction that is required for these purposes that is within or attached to the physical confines of the buildings of Pitt County Memorial Hospital according to construction contracts that have been previously entered into by the contracting parties for Pitt County Memorial Hospital, may be exempt from the requirements of G.S. 143-129 and G.S. 143-132 and accomplished by negotiated change orders to existing contracts.
This exemption does not apply to the construction of any free-standing addition or additions to the Pitt County Memorial Hospital for the accomplishment of the above purposes.
Sec. 34. Fifty percent (50%) of all indirect costs (overhead receipts) received in connection with contracts and grants in any fiscal year by any of the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina shall be transferred to their general operating budget as reimbursement for operating costs.
Sec. 35. This act provides for withdrawing four million dollars ($4,000,000) from the balances of the overhead receipts funds at the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina. This reduction shall be apportioned among the constituent institutions in proportion to the May 31, 1975, balances in these funds at each institution.
Sec. 36. Of the amount appropriated in Section 2 to the Board of Governors for related educational programs, five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for 1975-76 and six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($650,000) for 1976-77 and any matching federal funds shall be used by the State Education Assistance Authority to establish a North Carolina incentive grants program for financial aid to needy North Carolina undergraduate students enrolled in post- secondary education institutions in North Carolina.
Sec. 37. Funds appropriated herein to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for allocation to the constituent institutions shall be distributed fairly and equitably among the institutions in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 116-11(9).
Sec. 38. All funds provided as grants-in-aid to private nonprofit organizations in the areas of history, art, and culture are appropriated to the Department of Cultural Resources for allocation in accordance with law. Funds appropriated to the department for grants-in-aid to assist in the restoration of significant historic sites owned by private nonprofit organizations shall be expended only in accordance with Sections 121-11, 121-12 and 143-31.2 of the General Statutes.
It is the intent of the General Assembly that non-State organizations operating in the areas of history, art, and culture submit their requests for grant-in-aid appropriations through the Secretary of the Department of Cultural Resources for recommendations to the Governor, the Advisory Budget Commission and the General Assembly. The Secretary is empowered and directed to make regular and timely reviews, studies and recommendations concerning the operations and needs of these organizations for State funds. In discharging this responsibility, the Secretary may request from the grantees operating statements, audit reports and other information deemed appropriate.
Sec. 39. It is the intent of this act that expenditures of funds appropriated herein as reserves shall not be scheduled in amounts or in such manner as to create an increased annual obligation in the succeeding year, except as provided by statute.
Sec. 40. Subject to a recommendation of the director of the budget and with the approval of the Council of State, funds may be allotted out of the Contingency and Emergency Appropriation for use by the State Department of Agriculture, the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, the United States Department of Agriculture, or any of them, for a witch weed control program or for payment of hog cholera indemnities, or both.
Sec. 41. Appropriations are provided in Section 2 of this act for required employer contributions to the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement Fund, the Law Enforcement Officers' Benefit and Retirement Fund, the Judicial Department Retirement Fund, and the Social Security Agency, for employees whose salaries are paid from the General Fund; in Section 3 of this act, for required employer contributions for employees whose salaries are paid from the Highway Fund; and in Section 4 of this act, for required employer contributions for employees whose salaries are paid from Special Funds. For employees whose salaries are paid from department, office, institution, or agency receipts (other than gifts, including foundation funds), the employer requirement shall be paid from the same source as the source of the employee's 1305 salary. In those instances in which an employee's salary is paid in part from the General Fund and in part from department, office, institution, or agency receipts(other than gifts, including foundation funds), required employer contributions shall be paid from the General Fund only to the extent of the proportionate part paid from the General Fund in support of the salary of such employee, and the remainder of the employer's requirement shall be paid from the same source which supplies the remainder of such employee's salary. The requirements of this section as to source of payment are also applicable to payments on behalf of employees of Hospital-Medical Insurance, Longevity, and Unemployment Insurance, except that where the employee's salary is paid in whole or in part from gifts, including foundations, the source of such gifts must bear its proportional share of the employer's requirement for these purposes.
Notwithstanding the restrictions in this section, the director of the budget is authorized and empowered to promulgate special rules and regulations to apply to employer requirements with respect to employees whose salaries are paid from inter-agency receipts, where payments for the services of such employees originate from State appropriations, to the end that the effective purchasing power of such appropriations shall not be materially reduced as a result of payment of the employer's requirement.
Any questions as to the applicability of the provisions of this section shall be resolved by the director of the budget and the Advisory Budget Commission.
Sec. 42. Subject to the rules and regulations promulgated by the Department of Administration and approved by the director of the budget, any State department, institution, or agency of the State is hereby authorized to expend, from appropriations made in this act, funds to pay reasonable expenses for transporting the household goods of an employee and members of his household when the transfer of the employee is considered by the director of the budget to be in the best interests of the State.
Sec. 43. The director of the budget with the approval of the Council of State is authorized to make transfers from the Contingency and Emergency Fund for any purpose authorized by law for which no specific appropriation has been made, or when, inadvertently, an insufficient appropriation has been made.
Sec. 44. The director of the budget, with the approval of the Advisory Budget Commission and upon the request of the Governor's Aviation Committee, is authorized and empowered to allocate grants from the appropriations for airport improvements made in Section 2 of this act.
Sec. 45. The Secretary of the Department of Human Resources is authorized to establish rules and regulations applicable to local human resource agencies for the purpose of program evaluation, fiscal audits, and collection of third-party payments.
Sec. 46. It is the intent of this General Assembly that, of the appropriations enumerated above in this act, the elements listed below are to be financed from the General Revenue Sharing Trust Fund of the State.
Public Schools, Direct Financial Support of Local School Systems Programs
Support Services at the Local Level Subprogram
1975-76 1976-77
Pupil Transportation Element:
Operational Costs $36,712,159 $36,441,040
Bus Replacement 6,525,809 5,010,760
Textbooks Element 5,541,862 __________
Total $48,779,830 $41,451,800
Sec. 47. There is hereby repealed G.S. 135-4(m) and G.S. 135-5(u) which require that the employer portion of the annual cost to fund the provisions of G.S. 135-4(f)(6), (k) and (1) and G.S. 135-5, subsections (s) and (t) shall be paid by the employer based on the employer contribution rate as determined by the actuary and no cost shall be paid from funds now held by the Retirement System.
Sec. 48. Subject to legislative action to transfer the Division of Youth Development and the training schools of the Department of Correction to the Department of Human Resources, it is the intent of the General Assembly that all funds appropriated in this act for the administration and operation of the Division of Youth Development and the schools shall be transferred to the Department of Human Resources.
Sec. 49. Grant-in-aid funds appropriated to the Department of Cultural Resources, as a supplement to private funds for expenses incurred by the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, shall be the responsibility of and administered by the North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc., subject to audit and recommendations by the State Auditor.
It is the intent of the appropriation made for administration of the North Carolina Symphony that the Department of Cultural Resources be responsible for the expenditure of funds for administration and have authority over the employment of administrative personnel, subject to the provisions of G.S. 126. The department may seek the advice and assistance of the North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc., in administrative personnel actions.
Sec. 50. There is appropriated in Section 2 of this act a reserve for merit salary increases to permanent college academic personnel and permanent community college personnel whose salaries are exempt from the State Personnel Act.
The director of the budget is authorized and empowered to transfer from that reserve to the appropriate departments an amount for merit salary increases. The total amount of funds are to be allocated to individuals according to rules and regulations established by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina and the State Board of Education.
The director of the budget is authorized and empowered to allocate, out of special operating funds, or from sources other than tax revenues under which personnel exempt from the State Personnel Act are employed, sufficient funds to conform with the provisions of this section, provided necessary funds are available or made available by sponsoring agents. The director of the budget is further authorized to promulgate special rules and regulations to apply to merit salary increases for employees whose salaries are paid from inter-agency receipts, where payments for the services of such employees originate from State appropriations, as long as the effective purchasing power of such appropriations is not materially reduced as a result of these merit increases. Any question as to the applicability of the provisions of this section shall be resolved by the director of the budget and the Advisory Budget Commission.
Salaries for positions which are paid partially from the General Fund and partially from sources other than the General Fund shall be increased from the General Fund appropriation only to the extent of the proportionate part of the salaries paid from the General Fund.
Sec. 51. The director of the budget is authorized and empowered to transfer to General Fund budget codes from the General Fund salary adjustment appropriation, and to Highway Fund budget codes from the Highway Fund salary adjustment appropriation, such amounts as may be required to support approved salary adjustments made necessary by difficulties in recruiting and holding qualified employees in State Government. These funds are intended to be transferred only when the use of salary reserve funds in individual operating budgets is not feasible.
Sec. 52. The salary per annum of the following shall be:
Chief Justice, Supreme Court $ 39,000
Associate Justice, Supreme Court 38,000
Chief Judge, Court of Appeals 36,500
Judge, Court of Appeals 35,500
Judge, Superior Court 30,500
Chief Judge, District Court 24,500
Judge, District Court 23,500
Solicitor or District Attorney 27,000
Assistant Solicitor or
Assistant District Attorney an average of 17,500
Administrative Officer of the Courts 32,500
Assistant Administrative Officer of the Courts 24,000
Public Defender 27,000
Assistant Public Defender an average of 17,500
The minimum salary of any Assistant Solicitor or Assistant District Attorney and Assistant Public Defender shall be twelve thousand dollars($12,000) per annum; provided, that on recommendation of the District Attorney or the Public Defender with the approval of the Administrative Officer of the Courts the salaries of Assistant District Attorneys and Assistant Public Defenders may be adjusted so long as the average salaries of Assistant District Attorneys and Assistant Public Defenders in a judicial district do not exceed seventeen thousand five hundred dollars ($17,500).
Sec. 53. It is the intent of this General Assembly that the Employee Disability Salary Continuation Program be shifted from a pre-paid premium basis to a pay-as-you-go basis. Beginning July 1, 1975, funds budgeted for the existing Employee Disability Salary Continuation Program ($3.00 per month per employee) shall be used to pay the increased employee cost for hospitalization insurance ($3.50 per month per employee) which becomes effective October 1, 1975. Funds budgeted for Disability Salary Continuation in 1975-76 which are not required for hospitalization insurance in 1975-76 may be transferred to 1976-77, to the extent necessary, to fund hospitalization insurance. Employee disability salary continuation payments payable in 1975-77 shall be paid by the N. C. Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System from the existing reserves and interest income of the Disability Salary Continuation Program Fund.
Sec. 54. In an effort to balance the 1975-77 budget, it was necessary to make reductions in personnel and to eliminate certain programs. To assure that the intent of the General Assembly is followed, no department of State government may transfer funds within its budget to fund positions or programs eliminated, except upon approval of the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission.
Sec. 55. The Day-Care Licensing Element of the Department of Administration shall not be transferred to any other department.
Sec. 56. It is the intent and purpose of the General Assembly at its 1976 Session to establish as its first priority the funding of equal salary increases in 1976-77 for all State employees, including those subject to and exempt from the State Personnel Act, highway employees, public school employees and staff members of community colleges and higher educational institutions.
Sec. 57. The appropriation made in Section 2 of this act to the Governor's office for the ombudsman program is to be reviewed by the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission in preparing the next budget to determine if that program should be continued beyond the 1975-77 biennium.
Sec. 58. Funds appropriated in Section 2 of this act to the State Board of Education provide for the improvement of reading instruction in the public schools. These funds are to be expended in accordance with a plan to be submitted to the Governor and Advisory Budget Commission specifying how programs will be designed, developed and evaluated. These funds for reading improvement shall be non-recurring and non-reverting and the approved programs shall be completed no later than June 30, 1978.
Sec. 59. There is herein appropriated to the General Assembly ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in 1975-76 to support a special study commission which is to make a detailed examination of the programs of research, development, evaluation, and assessment within the Department of Public Instruction and do such other studies as the commission might determine to be pertinent in evaluating these programs in order to determine the effectiveness of said programs and whether they should be transferred, in whole or in part, expanded or decreased.
This study commission shall consist of one co-chairperson and six other members to be appointed by the Speaker of the House, four of whom shall be members of the House of Representatives and three members of the public at large; one co-chairperson and six other members to be appointed by the President of the Senate, four of whom shall be members of the Senate and three members of the public at large. Appointments to this study commission are to be made by August 15, 1975, and upon their appointment the co-chairpersons shall organize and begin work as they deem appropriate. This commission shall report to the General Assembly at the convening of its 1976 session.
Sec. 60. It is the intent of this act that the Board of Governors shall set tuition rates for nonresident students who are enrolled in the constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina and that such existing annual rates be increased by approximately one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the academic year beginning on or about September 1, 1975.
It is the further intent of this act that the State Board of Education shall set tuition rates for nonresident students who are enrolled in the institutions of the Community College System and that such existing annual rates be increased by approximately one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the academic year beginning on or about July 1, 1975. Registration fees for extension courses for which instruction is financed primarily from State funds shall be increased to three dollars ($3.00) per course beginning on or about July 1, 1975.
Sec. 61. The provisions of the Executive Budget Act, Chapter 143, Article 1, of the General Statutes, are re-enacted and shall remain in full force and effect, and are incorporated in this act by reference.
Sec. 62. If any section or provision of this act be declared unconstitutional or invalid by the courts, the same shall not affect the validity of the act as a whole or any part other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.
Sec. 63. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 64. This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.