North Carolina HB 1154: Community College Critical Technologies Workforce Fund.

Status: Passed 1st Reading (as of 2022-05-31)

State: North Carolina · Session: 2021 · Bill: HB 1154

Subjects: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, APPROPRIATIONS, BUDGETING, COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES, COMMUNITY COLLEGES, COMMUNITY COLLEGES OFFICE, CYBERSECURITY, EDUCATION, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, EMPLOYMENT, FUNDS & ACCOUNTS, HIGHER EDUCATION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC, STEM, UTILITIES, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, WATER & SEWER SYSTEMS

Sponsors: Roberson, Saine, Adcock, Alston, Autry, Brown, Butler, Farkas, Harris, Harrison, Hawkins, Hunt, John, Loftis, Logan, Majeed, Morey, Strickland, Szoka, White, Willingham, Yarborough

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2021
H 1
HOUSE BILL 1154

Short Title: CC Critical Tech. Workforce Fund. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Roberson, Saine, and Szoka (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
May 31, 2022
*H1154-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2
CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES WORKFORCE FUND. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. Article 3 of Chapter 115D of the General Statutes is amended by 5
adding a new section to read: 6
"§ 115D-44. Community College Critical Technologies Workforce Fund. 7
(a) Definition. – For purposes of this section, the term "critical technologies" refers to 8
any of the following: 9
(1) A clean energy or clean transportation technology, including the 10
manufacturing of semiconductors. 11
(2) Cybersecurity technology. 12
(3) Technology essential to supporting, maintaining, or constructing the domestic 13
electrical grid or for proper handling or management of recycling or reusing 14
decommissioned renewable energy equipment. 15
(4) Drinking water infrastructure. 16
(5) Any materials or components directly used in the technologies listed in this 17
subsection. 18
(b) There is established the Community College Critical Technologies Workforce Fund 19
to be administered by the Community Colleges System Office. The Fund shall consist of all 20
monies appropriated to the Fund and any interest accrued thereon. The Fund shall be used to 21
support workforce development programs in community colleges related to critical technologies 22
in order to enhance the economic competitiveness of the State and promote national security and 23
energy independence from foreign energy sources. Monies appropriated to the Fund shall not 24
revert but shall remain available until expended. The State Board of Community Colleges shall 25
adopt a formula for the distribution of the monies in the Fund based on the number of full-time 26
equivalent students enrolled in a community college." 27
SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community 28
College Critical Technologies Workforce Fund the sum of one million five hundred thousand 29
dollars ($1,500,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022-2023 fiscal year to be used in accordance 30
with G.S. 115D-44, as enacted by Section 1 of this act. 31
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2022. 32

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