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 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
 SESSION 2025
-S 1
-SENATE BILL 715
+S D
+SENATE BILL DRS45356-NGa-46
 
 Short Title: Student Voter ID Grant Program/CCs. (Public)
 Sponsors: Senators Meyer and Murdock (Primary Sponsors).
-Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
-March 26, 2025
-*S715-v-1*
+Referred to:
+
+*DRS45356-NGa-46*
 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
-AN ACT TO APPROPRIAT E FUNDS TO REQUIRE T HE STATE BOARD OF 2
-COMMUNITY COLLEGES T O ESTABLISH THE STUD ENT VOTER 3
-IDENTIFICATION GRANT  PROGRAM AND TO ENCO URAGE COMMUNITY 4
+AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO REQUIRE THE STATE BOARD OF 2
+COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO ESTABLISH THE STUDENT VOTER 3
+IDENTIFICATION GRANT PROGRAM AND TO ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY 4
 COLLEGES TO APPLY FOR GRANTS UNDER THE PROGRAM. 5
 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 6
 SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community 7
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 Student Voter Identification Grant Program (Program) to provide grants to community colleges 10
 of up to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per community college to upgrade necessary 11
 equipment and facilities to produce student identification cards that can be used to vote in person 12
-in accordance with G.S.  163-166.16. The State Board shall develop a process for receiving 13
+in accordance with G.S. 163-166.16. The State Board shall develop a process for receiving 13
 applications from community colleges and award grants no later than August 15, 2025, to any 14
-community colle ge that submits a reasonable and timely plan for the expenditure of funds 15
+community college that submits a reasonable and timely plan for the expenditure of funds 15
 consistent with the purposes of the Program. No community college shall receive more than one 16
-grant under the Program. No later than February 15, 2026, the System Office shall report  to the 17
+grant under the Program. No later than February 15, 2026, the System Office shall report to the 17
 Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee on the identity of the community colleges 18
 receiving grants under the Program and the purchases made with the funds awarded. 19
-SECTION 1.(b)   Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, t he 20
+SECTION 1.(b)   Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the 20
 State Board of Elections shall review and approve the application of any community college 21
 receiving funds under the Student Voter Identification Grant Program established in subsection 22
-(a) of this section that is submitted to the State Board by Septemb er 1, 2025, to have its student 23
+(a) of this section that is submitted to the State Board by September 1, 2025, to have its student 23
 identification cards approved for use as photo identification cards, if the application complies 24
 with other requirements for such an application established by the State Board. 25
 SECTION 2.  It is the intent of the General Assembly (i) to encourage all community 26
 colleges in the State that do not have student identification cards that can be used to vote in person 27
-in accordance with G.S.  163-166.16 to apply to receive grants under the Student Voter 28
+in accordance with G.S. 163-166.16 to apply to receive grants under the Student Voter 28
 Identification Grant Program established pursuant to Section 1 of this act and (ii) that the Program 29
 remove the existing financial barriers of community colleges to providing students with valid 30
 photo identification for voting. 31
 SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 32
+FILED SENATE
+Mar 25, 2025
+S.B. 715
+PRINCIPAL CLERK