GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1174

Short Title:  Agricultural Export Program Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Albertson; Perdue, Hoyle, Kerr, Martin of Pitt, Jordan, Hunt, Martin of Guilford, Conder, Winner of Buncombe, Gunter, Allran, Forrester, Cochrane, Lee, Smith, Edwards, Richardson, Seymour, Tally, Cooper, Hyde, Walker, Carpenter, Blackmon, Kincaid, Odom, Hartsell, Codington, Shaw, Speed, Simpson, Sherron, Ballance, Warren, Plexico, Marshall, Soles, Ward, and Kaplan.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 17, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO INCREASE THE EXPORTS OF NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for a program managed by the International Trade Office of the Department of Agriculture to introduce North Carolina agricultural products to potential importers in the newly independent states that formerly constituted the Soviet Union.
The funds shall be used to rent space and operate North Carolina pavilions in food and agricultural exhibitions.  The space shall be made available to North Carolina agricultural-related companies on condition that:
(1)	When the company has received 10 times the value of the space, as determined by the Department of Agriculture, in sales in the newly independent states, the company shall (i) reimburse the Department the value of the space, or (ii) contribute the value of the space in agricultural products for humanitarian aid to one of the newly independent states; and
(2)	The products shall be shipped through a North Carolina port, when feasible.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.