S704 - COVID-19 Recovery Act. (SL 2020-3)

Overview: Section 2.29 of S.L. 2020-3 provides an additional 60 days to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina (BOG) to submit the following reports to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee (JLEOC):

• The annual report due by April 15 each year on teacher education efforts at The University of North Carolina.
• The annual report due by April 15 each year on the supply and demand of school administrators to determine the number of school administrators to be trained in school administrator training programs within the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina in each year of the fiscal biennium.
• The biennial report due by May 15 every two years on the goals for State operated health professional schools that offer training programs for licensure or certification of physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives for increasing the percentage of the graduates of those programs who enter clinical programs and careers in primary care.

This section also allows the BOG until June 15, 2020, to submit its annual report on the UNC-NCCCS 2+2 E Learning Initiative which is due by April 15 each year to the JLEOC, the State Board of Education (SBE), the Office of State Budget and Management, and the Fiscal Research Division. Finally, this section allows The University of North Carolina System Office until June 15, 2020, to submit its annual report on the UNC-NCCCS Joint Initiative for Teacher Education and Recruitment which is due by April 15 each year to the SBE, the BOG, the State Board of Community Colleges, the Education Cabinet, the JLEOC, and the Office of State Budget and Management.

This section became effective May 4, 2020.