GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 2092

Short Title:  Agric./Rural Life Project Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives James; Cummings and Sexton.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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June 9, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE AGRICULTURE/RURAL LIFE OUTREACH PROJECT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Community Colleges the sum of one hundred ninety-five thousand dollars ($195,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for the Agriculture/Rural Life Outreach Project.  It is the intent of the General Assembly to fund the Project for three additional fiscal years in the amount of one hundred ninety-five thousand dollars ($195,000) each year.  The purposes of the Project are to offer supplementary education to public and private audiences about our national, regional, State, and local agricultural heritage and to raise the level of awareness of the critical role agricultural heritage plays in local contemporary society.  Programs offered by the Project may include (i) visually based and entertaining presentations made available to elementary schools and middle schools on the effects of farmers and agriculture production in North Carolina and the United States, (ii) videos, slides, and charts made available to high schools on the social, economic, and political impact of agriculture on our past, present, and future, (iii) lectures offered for community college classes on the social, economic, and political influence of farm and rural life on the local community, (iv) lectures offered to college and university classes on agricultural heritage, politics, economy, and social influences that are designed to demonstrate the role agriculture plays in our local society, gross national product, and position in a global economy, (v) presentations and lectures to public and private organizations, clubs, and youth groups designed primarily to focus on local agricultural heritage, and (vi) work as a supplementary factor with historic sites in North Carolina.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.