AN ACT appropriating funds to eliminate the waitlist for the nc prekindergarten (nc pre‑k) program statewide.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education, the sum of twelve million five hundred thousand dollars ($12,500,000) recurring for each year of the 2021‑2023 fiscal biennium to eliminate the waitlist for the NC Prekindergarten (NC Pre‑K) program statewide.

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2021.