S99 - Appropriations Act of 2018. (SL 2018-5)

Overview: OVERVIEW and ANALYSIS: Sec. 10.1 of S.L. 2018-5 makes various clarifying changes to the UNC Laboratory Schools statutes including the following:

• Requires the local school administrative unit in which the laboratory school is located to administer the National School Lunch Program for the school.
• Allows a sibling of a child who is eligible to attend a laboratory school to also attend the laboratory school even if the sibling does not meet the eligibility requirements.
• Allows the laboratory school to give enrollment priority to the sibling of an enrolled student who attended the laboratory school in the prior school year.
• Allows the campus police department of the constituent institution to also be a designated entity that can require additional information from persons who have to have criminal history checks.
• Requires that the annual report submitted to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee include the number of enrolled students who are siblings of otherwise eligible students.

This section became effective July 1, 2018, and applies beginning with the 2018-2019 school year.