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SB 127 North Carolina Senate · 2025-2026 Session

Lower Taxes for Scotland County.

SB 127 would change how Scotland County handles school funding by allowing the Scotland County Board of Education to *recommend* supplemental funding for schools instead of submitting a mandatory budget request. This change would directly affect Scotland County schools, the Board of Education, and the Board of Commissioners. The bill’s key mechanism replaces a mandatory budget process with a recommendation system, requiring the Board of Commissioners to evaluate the recommendation. The bill title ("Lower Taxes for Scotland County") is misleading, as it does not propose tax cuts but alters funding procedures. This bill was withdrawn from committee in March 2025 and never advanced further.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 21, 2025 Last action Mar 20, 2025
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What changed between versions

Edition 1 → Edition 2 · 4 edits
MODERATE
The bill was amended to shift authority over school budget decisions from a mandatory funding floor to discretionary county commissioner control. The Finance Committee Substitute removes language requiring the school board to submit supplemental funding recommendations for evaluation, instead allowing the Scotland County Board of Commissioners to adopt the school budget at their discretion. This represents a significant change in how school funding is determined in Scotland County, moving from a state-mandated minimum funding requirement to local discretionary control.
Scope change
The bill's scope changed from requiring mandatory budget requests and supplemental funding recommendations to allowing discretionary budget adoption by the county commissioners. This affects the Scotland County Board of Education and Scotland County Board of Commissioners.
REQUIREMENT

Removed language requiring the Scotland County Board of Education to submit a recommendation of supplemental funding for evaluation by the county commissioners.

Added language authorizing the Scotland County Board of Commissioners to adopt a school budget in their discretion.

Removed the mandatory school funding floor requirement that local funds must provide at least the average current expense expenditures per student from local funds throughout the State.

FISCAL

Changed the funding mechanism from a mandatory minimum per-student funding floor to discretionary county commissioner budget adoption.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
11
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Mar 20, 2025
Committee
Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
upper
Mar 19, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reptd Fav
upper
Mar 18, 2025
Committee
Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
upper
Mar 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Com Substitute Adopted
upper
Mar 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reptd Fav Com Substitute
upper
Mar 11, 2025
Committee
Re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate
upper
Feb 24, 2025
Committee
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
upper
Feb 21, 2025
Introduced
Filed
upper
0 primary · 1 co-sponsor

Sponsors

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