North Carolina SB 543: State Auditor to Audit Private Schools.

Status: Passed 1st Reading (as of 2025-03-26)

State: North Carolina · Session: 2025 · Bill: SB 543

Subjects: AUDITING & AUDITS; BUDGETING; CHARTER SCHOOLS; COUNCIL OF STATE; EDUCATION; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; FUNDING; PRIVATE SCHOOLS; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; SECONDARY EDUCATION; STATE AUDITOR

Sponsors: Everitt, Smith, Waddell

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 543

Short Title: State Auditor to Audit Private Schools. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Everitt (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 26, 2025
*S543-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO DIRECT THE STATE AUDITOR TO PERIODICALLY AUDIT PRIVATE 2
SCHOOLS THAT RECEIVE STATE FUNDS. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 147-64.6(c) reads as rewritten: 5
"(c) Responsibilities. – The Auditor is responsible for the following acts and activities: 6
... 7
(24) The Auditor shall periodically audit nonpublic schools that enroll students 8
who receive scholarship grants under Part 2A of Article 39 of Chapter 115C 9
of the General Statutes." 10
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. 11

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