GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1201

Short Title:  PTRI Program/Faculty Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Gray.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 9, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR PROGRAMS, EQUIPMENT, STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, AND FACULTY FOR THE PIEDMONT TRIAD GRADUATE ENGINEERING PROGRAM FUNDED THROUGH THE PIEDMONT RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Piedmont Triad Research Institute, Inc., the sum of $750,000 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $750,000 for the 1992-93 fiscal year for the Piedmont Triad Graduate Engineering Program, housed at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University, and serving students of the constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina.  These funds shall be used for North Carolina State University at Raleigh, and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University faculty salaries, graduate assistantships and other stipends, such as tuition waivers, equipment and supplies, engineering communications network improvement and enhancement, travel expenses, and relocation expenses for faculty participating in the Piedmont Triad Graduate Engineering Program.
Sec. 2.  The appropriations for the 1992-93 fiscal year pursuant to this act shall be matched by $250,000 in local funds.
Sec. 3.  Wake Forest University shall fund its own faculty and students participating in the Piedmont Triad Graduate Engineering Program.  No State funds appropriated pursuant to this act shall be allocated to Wake Forest University.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.