GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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SENATE BILL 26
Capital Expenditures & Improvements Committee Substitute Adopted 7/17/93

Short Title:  Capital Budget.	(Public)
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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February 1, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS TO PROVIDE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR STATE DEPARTMENTS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AGENCIES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

PART 1.  INTRODUCTION

Section 1.  The appropriations made by the 1993 General Assembly for capital improvements are for constructing, repairing, or renovating State buildings, utilities, and other capital facilities, for acquiring sites for them where necessary, and for acquiring buildings and land for State government purposes.

PART 2.  TITLE

Sec. 2.  This act shall be known as "The Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 1993".

PART 3.  PROCEDURES FOR DISBURSEMENTS

Sec. 3.  The appropriations made by the 1993 General Assembly for capital improvements shall be disbursed for the purposes provided by this act.  Expenditure of funds shall not be made by any State department, institution, or agency, until an allotment has been approved by the Governor as Director of the Budget.  The allotment shall be approved only after full compliance with the Executive Budget Act, Article 1 of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes.  Prior to the award of construction contracts for projects to be financed in whole or in part with self-liquidating appropriations, the Director of the Budget shall approve the elements of the method of financing of those projects including the source of funds, interest rate, and liquidation period.  Provided, however, that if the Director of the Budget approves the method of financing a project, the Director shall report that action to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations at its next meeting.
Where direct capital improvement appropriations include the purpose of furnishing fixed and movable equipment for any project, those funds for equipment shall not be subject to transfer into construction accounts except as authorized by the Director of the Budget.  The expenditure of funds for fixed and movable equipment and furnishings shall be reviewed and approved by the Director of the Budget prior to commitment of funds.
Capital improvement projects authorized by the 1993 General Assembly shall be completed, including fixed and movable equipment and furnishings, within the limits of the amounts of the direct or self-liquidating appropriations provided, except as otherwise provided in this act.

PART 4.  CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS/GENERAL FUND

Sec. 4.  Appropriations are made from the General Fund for the 1993-94 fiscal year for use by the State departments, institutions, and agencies to provide for capital improvement projects according to the following schedule:

Department of Administration
(Total)		$14,468,400
1.	Reserve for Repairs/Renovations -
a.	Old Education Building - Design and Feasibility Study 1,000,000
b.	Old Revenue Building	4,000,000
2.	State Veterans' Cemetery - Fort Bragg
Requirements	$1,219,500
Receipts - Federal	751,100
State Appropriation	468,400
3.	Reserve for Veterans' Home - State Share	3,000,000
4.	Polk Youth Center Replacement -
  Design and Site Preparation	4,000,000
5.	GPAC Prison Facility Consolidation
  - Planning and Design	2,000,000

Department of Agriculture
(Total)		8,983,400
1.	Continued Development of Triad
Farmers' Market - Guilford County	4,221,300
2.	Medical Waste Incinerators -
Research Stations	712,900
3.	Pesticide Storage Buildings -
Research Stations	399,200
4.	Eastern North Carolina
Agricultural Center Development	3,400,000
5.	Livestock Facility - Planning
Funds	250,000
6.	Shop and Equipment Storage
Facility - Upper Mountain Research Station
	Requirements	323,300
	Timber Receipts	323,300
	State Appropriation	0
7.	Dairy Milking Parlor - Umstead
Research Station
	Requirements	213,000
	Timber Receipts	213,000
	State Appropriation	0
8.	Shop/Storage - Horticultural Crops
Research Station
	Requirements	168,900
	Timber Receipts	168,900
	State Appropriation	0

Department of Correction
(Total)		1,381,500
1.	Add Dayrooms - Odom Correctional
Center	381,500
2.	Water/Wastewater Improvements -
Statewide	1,000,000

Department of Crime Control and Public Safety
(Total)		799,700
1.	National Guard Armory Replacement
- Kinston
	Requirements	3,897,700
	Receipts - Federal	2,848,300
	Receipts - Local	524,700
	State Appropriation	524,700
2.	National Guard - Aerial Reserve
Equipment for Emergency Support Missions	275,000

Department of Cultural Resources
(Total)		6,774,100
1.	Museum of History - Core
Exhibition Design and Construction	5,424,100
2.	Museum of the Albemarle - Complete
Design	1,000,000
3.	Elizabeth II State Historic Site -
Master Plan Implementation - Design	250,000
4.	Somerset Place State Historic Site
- Development - Washington County	100,000

Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources
(Total)		14,666,700
1.	Geological Survey Repository -
Core Sample Storage Addition	434,600
2.	State Parks - Reserve for
Construction Projects for Health, Safety, Access Improvements, and Land Acquisition 2,100,000
3.	Small Watershed and Solid Waste
Grants	1,680,000
4.	Forestry - District and County
Headquarters Buildings/ Equipment Sheds	1,448,100
5.	Water Resources (Civil Works) -
Reserve for Planning, Construction Projects, Operations and Maintenance Projects, and Feasibility Studies 7,908,000
6.	Partnership for the Sounds -
Matching Funds	846,000
7.	Expansion - Aquariums - Planning	250,000

Department of Human Resources
(Total)		4,957,300
1.	Reserve - Life Safety/ 
Certification Improvements - Statewide	1,000,000
2.	Dorothea Dix Hospital - Male Wing
Completion	1,457,300
3.	John Umstead Hospital - Sewer
Plant Upgrade - Design	250,000
4.	Eastern School for the Deaf -
Student Activity/Recreation Complex - Design	250,000
5.	Mental Health Facility Funds	2,000,000

Department of Justice
(Total)		18,600,000
1.	Justice Academy - B-Dorm Repairs
and Equipment
	Requirements	321,800
	Receipts	321,800
	State Appropriation	0
2.	SBI Lab - New Construction	18,600,000

Office of State Controller
(Total)		4,400,000
1.	State Telecommunications System -
Communications Network - Development	4,400,000

Department of Commerce
(Total)		10,000,000
1.	Workforce Training Facility -
Design, Construction, and Equipment	10,000,000

Department of Commerce - MCNC
(Total)		1,653,000
1.	MCNC Reserve for Capital Needs and
Communications
a.	Conduct a joint telecommunications Research and Development Project with MCI Corporation 1,000,000
b.	Purchase and Installation of upgraded equipment for the MCNC Supercomputer 300,000
2.	Elizabeth City State University -
Funds to Connect this Campus to the MCNC CONCERT Telecommunications Network 353,000

North Carolina Ports Railway Commission
(Total)		250,000
1.	Planning Funds - Replacement of
Beaufort-Morehead Trestle	250,000

University - Board of Governors
(Total)		27,406,175
1.	University of North Carolina -
Chapel Hill - School of Business	6,750,000
2.	Elizabeth City State University -
Restoration of Butler Hall	2,000,000
3.	East Carolina University - State
	support for the renovation of Minges Coliseum	2,500,000
4.	North Carolina State University -
State Match for the Centennial Center	5,000,000
5.	University of North Carolina -
Center for Public Television - Replace and upgrade the Transmitting Tower in Winston-Salem 1,006,175
6.	UNC-Asheville - Land Purchase	4,000,000
7.	East Carolina University - Medical
School - Planning for Capital Improvement Needs	50,000
8.	School of the Arts - Education
Building for Film School	5,900,000
9.	North Carolina State University -
Capital Costs Needed to Effect a Transfer of the Agricultural Education Program from the College of Education and Psychology to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 200,000

Total Capital Improvements/General Fund	$114,340,275

PART 5.  CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS/HIGHWAY FUND

Sec. 5.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund for the 1993-94 fiscal year the listed funds for use of the Department of Transportation to provide for capital improvement projects according to the following schedule:

	1993-94

1.	Upgrade facilities to meet the Americans
With Disabilities Act Standards	$1,678,600
2.	Replace the two elevators in the Highway
Building	350,500
TOTAL - DEPARTMENTWIDE	$2,029,100

DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS
1.	Replace roofs statewide	391,000
2.	Construct traffic service facility -
Town of Union (Hertford County)	818,000
3.	Design roadside environmental facility
(office, warehouse, shed) in Sylva	31,000
4.	Construct equipment shop in Sandy Ridge	717,000
TOTAL - DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS	$1,957,000

DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES
1.	Replace roofs statewide	76,100
2.	Resurface six parking lots statewide	120,900
3.	Renovate DMV Office Building in Durham	197,000
4.	Renovate DMV Office Building in Salisbury	197,000
TOTAL - DIVISION OF MOTOR VEHICLES	$591,000

HIGHWAY PATROL
1.	Replace underground storage tank	350,000

GRAND TOTAL HIGHWAY FUND	$4,927,100

PART 6.  NONRECURRING APPROPRIATIONS/GENERAL FUND

Sec. 6.  Appropriations are made from the General Fund for the 1993-94 fiscal year for use by the State departments, institutions, and agencies to provide for one-time expenditures according to the following schedule:

Department of Administration
(Total)	95,433
1.	Domestic Violence Program - To Fully
  Fund all 67 Programs	95,433

Department of Agriculture
(Total)	160,000
1.	Funds to Provide Mycotoxin Research	160,000

Department of Commerce
(Total)	18,375,000
1.	Investment in Manufacturing
  Technology - Match Federal Funds	1,000,000
2.	Reserve to Industrial Equipment,
  Industrial Training, and Economic
  Development	17,025,000
3.	Institute for Minority Economic
  Development	350,000

Department of Commerce - Rural Economic
Development Center
(Total)	5,925,000
1.	Rural Economic Development Act
  Implementation	2,825,000
2.	Community Development Corporations	2,900,000
3.	Credit Union Support Center	200,000

Department of Cultural Resources
(Total)	600,000
1.	Andrew Jackson Memorial - Grant	100,000
2.	The Lost Colony - Matching Funds	500,000

Department of Public Instruction
(Total)	600,565
1.	Funds to Hold Harmless Ashe and
  Jackson County Schools in the Small
  School Formula	600,565

Department of Human Resources
(Total)	200,000
1.	Medicaid Planning Funds - Redesign
  of Eligibility System	200,000

Department of Environment, Health, and
Natural Resources
(Total)	1,560,000
1.	Piedmont Triad Regional Water
  Authority - Grant to Purchase Land
  for Randleman Dam 	1,500,000
2.	Child Protective Services - Grant for
  Equipment	60,000

General Assembly
(Total)	1,326,163
1.	LRC/Independent Studies	250,000
2.	Reserve for GPAC Recommendations	1,076,163

Office of the Governor
(Total)	15,000,000
1.	Reserve for Education Technology and
  Education Technology to Attract Industry	15,000,000

Department of Secretary of State
(Total)	262,612
1.	Business License Office - Computer
  System Development and Equipment	262,612

Office of State Budget and Management
(Total)	2,250,000
1.	Science and Math Alliance - Development	800,000
2.	Children's Home Society of N.C.,
  Inc. - Grant to Establish an Adoption
  Resource Center	500,000
3.	Funds to Provide for a State Government
  Disparity Study	950,000

Office of State Controller
(Total)	4,200,000
1.	Reserve to Continue the Implementation
  of the State Accounting System	4,200,000

University - Board of Governors
(Total)	9,176,000
1.	North Carolina State University - To
  Study the Abatement of Odors from
  Swine Farms and the Impact of Swine
  Farms on Ground and Surface Water Supplies	200,000
2.	North Carolina State University -
  Agricultural Research Service -
  To Study Alternative Disposal Systems
  for Residential Sewage in Those Parts
  of the State Where Soil Absorption
  Qualities are Poor	50,000
3.	University of North Carolina - Funds
  to Support the Bicentennial Observance	250,000
4.	North Carolina A & T University -
  State support for the Applied
  Manufacturing and Education Center	5,500,000
5.	Winston-Salem State University -
  State support for the cooperative
  effort of North Carolina A & T, 
  UNC-Greensboro, N.C. State University,
  and Winston-Salem State University
  in the establishment of research
  parks in the Winston-Salem area	3,026,000
6.	UNC-Chapel Hill Educational Consortium	150,000

TOTAL NONRECURRING/GENERAL FUND	$59,730,773

PART 7.  TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS/CHAPTER 321-CURRENT OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS ACT OF 1993
Sec. 7.  MEDICAL SCHOOL ASSISTANCE FUNDING.
Section 78(b) of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina shall set goals for the Schools of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the School of Medicine at East Carolina University for increasing the percentage of graduates who enter residencies and careers in primary care.  A minimum goal should be at least fifty percent (50%) of graduates entering primary care disciplines.  Each school shall submit a plan with strategies to reach these goals of increasing the number of graduates entering primary care disciplines to the Board by April 15, 1994.  The Board of Governors shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by May 15, 1994, on the status of these efforts to strengthen primary health care in North Carolina.
Primary care shall include the disciplines of family medicine, general pediatric medicine, general internal medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, and obstetrics/gynecology."
Sec. 8.  UNC LIBRARIES FUNDING.
Section 91 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 91.  Of the funds appropriated in this act to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for Institutional Programs, the Board of Governors shall allocate at least eleven million eighty-four thousand dollars ($11,084,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and at least two million six hundred five thousand six hundred seventy-seven dollars ($2,605,677) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for Lines 2 and 4 of the Schedule of Priorities, to enhance library networks and library operations."
Sec. 9.  ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD.
G.S. 143B-434(b) as rewritten by Section 313(a) of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Membership. – The Economic Development Board shall consist of 36 members.  The Secretary of Commerce shall serve ex officio as a member and as the secretary of the Economic Development Board.  Four members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, four members of the Senate appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the President of The University of North Carolina, or designee, the President of the North Carolina Community College System, or designee, the Secretary of State, and the Lieutenant Governor, shall serve as members of the Board.  The Governor shall appoint the remaining 23 members of the Board, provided that effective with the terms beginning July 1, 1997, one of those appointees shall be a representative of a nonprofit organization involved in economic development and two of those appointees shall be county economic development representatives.  The Governor shall designate a chair and a vice-chair from among the members of the Board.  Appointments to the Board made by the Governor for terms beginning July 1, 1997, and appointments to the Board made by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate for terms beginning July 9, 1993, should reflect the ethnic and gender diversity of the State as nearly as practical.
The initial appointments to the Board shall be for terms beginning on July 9, 1993.  Of the initial appointments made by the Governor, the terms shall expire July 1, 1997.  Of the initial appointments made by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate two appointments of each shall be designated to expire on July 1, 1995; the remaining terms shall expire July 1, 1997.  Thereafter, all appointments shall be for a term of four years.
The appointing officer shall make a replacement appointment to serve for the unexpired term in the case of a vacancy.
	The members of the Economic Development Board shall receive per diem and necessary travel and subsistence expenses payable to members of State Boards and agencies generally pursuant to G.S. 138-5 and 138-6, as the case may be.  The members of the Economic Development Board who are members of the General Assembly shall not receive per diem but shall receive necessary travel and subsistence expenses at rates prescribed by G.S. 120-3.1."
Sec. 10.  EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES.
Section 254(b) of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Human Resources, the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of twenty-seven million six hundred forty thousand dollars ($27,640,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to implement subsection (a) of this section.  From the funds appropriated by this subsection, the Department shall provide funds for services prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, for necessary State, regional, and local administration of this Part, and for the activities of the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., consistent with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section."
Sec. 11.  CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES.
Section 234(a) of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Funds appropriated to the Division of Social Services, Department of Human Resources, in this act for Child Protective Services shall be allocated for the 1993-94 fiscal year and for the 1994-95 fiscal year as follows:
(1)	Each county department of social services shall receive an amount based on a formula that takes into consideration the number of Child Protective Services cases in that county and the number of Child Protective Services workers required to meet a ratio of no more than 20 active cases per one Child Protective Services worker.  The allocation of these funds to each county shall not be less than that county's allocation in the 1992-93 fiscal year unless the General Assembly appropriates less funds for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the 1994-95 fiscal year for Child Protective Services than it appropriated in the 1992-93 fiscal year; and
(2)	Each county department of social services shall receive a portion of the remainder of these funds, if any, on a proportional basis determined by the amount of funds necessary in that county to enable that county to achieve the caseload prescribed in subdivision (1) of this subsection.  Counties that have achieved the caseload ratios prescribed by subdivision (1) of this section in either the 1993-94 fiscal year or the 1994-95 fiscal year shall not receive any funds pursuant to this subdivision in that fiscal year."
Sec. 12.  JOINT LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES
G.S. 120-70.91, as enacted by Section 259 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"§ 120-70.91.  Purpose and powers of Committee.
(a)	The Committee shall examine, on a continuing basis, the Early Childhood Education and Development Initiatives established by Section 254 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws, in order to make ongoing recommendations to the General Assembly on ways to improve the provision of these programs and services.  In this examination, the Committee shall study the budgets, programs, and policies of the 12 local projects, their development and implementation by the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., and their oversight by the Department of Human Resources, to determine whether to recommend that the General Assembly should continue the Initiatives, expand them, or make them statewide and, if the Initiatives are continued, expanded, or made statewide, continue to study the budgets, programs, and policies of the Initiatives, their continued development and their oversight, to determine how to enable the Initiatives to provide the best, most cost-effective, and most equitable early childhood education and development services within the scope of the Initiatives' services and programs.
(b)	At the same times and intervals the Department reports to the General Assembly pursuant to Section 257 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws, the Department shall report to the Committee on the implementation of the Initiatives.  After the final report presented pursuant to Section 257, the Department shall continue to report to the Committee every three months.  If the Initiatives are discontinued, the Committee terminates.
(c)	The Committee may make interim reports to the General Assembly on matters for which it may report to a regular session of the General Assembly.  A report to the General Assembly may contain any legislation needed to implement a recommendation of the Committee."
Sec. 13.  REPAIRS AND RENOVATIONS RESERVE ACCOUNT.
G.S. 143-15.3A(b), as enacted by Section 17.1(b) of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The funds in the Repairs and Renovations Reserve Account shall be used only for the repair and renovation of State facilities and related infrastructure that are supported from the General Fund.  The Director of the Budget shall not use funds in the Repairs and Renovations Reserve Account unless the use has been approved by an act of the General Assembly."

PART 8.  GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
GPAC RECOMMENDATIONS
Sec. 14.  G.S. 143-16.3 does not apply to any purpose because that purpose was included in a bill to implement recommendations of the Government Performance Audit Committee.

PART 9.  OFFICE OF STATE BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FROM RESERVE FOR REPAIRS AND RENOVATIONS
Sec. 15.  Of the funds in the Reserve for Repairs and Renovations for the 1993-94 fiscal year, forty-five percent (45%) shall be allocated to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for repairs and renovations to General Fund supported facilities and related infrastructure in The University of North Carolina, including the North Carolina School of Science and Math, and fifty-five percent (55%) shall be allocated to the Office of State Budget and Management for necessary repairs and renovations to all other General Fund supported facilities and related infrastructure.  From this Reserve the Board of Governors may expend twenty-five million six hundred fifty thousand dollars ($25,650,000), and the Office of State Budget and Management may expend thirty-one million three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($31,350,000) for repairs and renovation, improvements to roads and walks, architectural barrier removal, and North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Act projects.
	The Board of Governors and the Office of State Budget and Management shall submit to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and to the Fiscal Research Division of the Legislative Services Office, for their review, the proposed allocation of these funds.  Subsequent changes in the proposed allocations shall be reported prior to expenditure to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and to the Fiscal Research Division of the Legislative Services Office.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
LOCAL WATER/SEWER FUNDS
Sec. 16.  (a)	Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws, the Office of State Budget and Management shall transfer the sum of six million eight hundred thousand dollars ($6,800,000), from the funds appropriated to the Reserve for Local Government Shared Tax Revenue for the 1993-94 fiscal year, to the Clean Water Revolving Loan and Grant Fund created in G.S. 159G-5.
(b)	Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 105-116, the Secretary of Revenue shall reduce the amount to be transferred to municipalities on or before December 15, 1993, pursuant to G.S. 105-116(d), by an amount equal to six million eight hundred thousand dollars ($6,800,000).  The Secretary of Revenue shall allocate this reduction on a pro rata basis among the municipalities entitled to receive a quarterly installment pursuant to G.S. 105-116(d) on or before December 15, 1993.
(c)	Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 105-113.82, the Secretary of Revenue shall reduce the amount to be distributed to counties and cities for the 1993-94 fiscal year pursuant to G.S. 105-113.82 by an amount equal to six million eight hundred thousand dollars ($6,800,000).  The Secretary of Revenue shall allocate this reduction on a pro rata basis among the counties and cities entitled to receive a distribution pursuant to G.S. 105-113.82 for the 1993-94 fiscal year.
(d)	The General Assembly finds that the purpose of the allocation provided in this section is to meet the funding needs of local governments for water supply and wastewater treatment facilities, as requested by local governmental units.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
RESERVE FOR GPAC RECOMMENDATIONS
Sec. 17.  Funds appropriated in this act to the Reserve for GPAC Recommendations shall be used to implement GPAC recommendations related to the following:
(1)	Program budget and evaluation;
(2)	Personnel classification and compensation;
(3)	Personnel policy; and
(4)	Legislative peer review, classification, and compensation.

PART 9A.  EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

STATE FICA SAVINGS USE EXTENSION
Sec. 17.1.  Section 14(i) of Chapter 1044 of the 1991 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(i)	Subsections (a) through (d) of this section are effective January 1, 1990.  Subsections (e) through (h) of this section are effective January 1, 1991.  Subsections (a) through (h) of this section shall expire December 31, 1994."

PART 10.  DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
EVALUATION OF DESIGN AND CONTRACT WORK FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE BUILDINGS
Sec. 18.  G.S. 143-135.26(4) reads as rewritten:
"(4)	To develop procedures for evaluating the work performed by designers and contractors on State capital improvement projects and those community college buildings, as defined in G.S. 143-336, requiring the estimated expenditure for construction or repair work for which public bidding is required under G.S. 143-129, and for use of the evaluations as a factor affecting designer selections and determining qualification of contractors to bid on State capital improvement projects and community college buildings."

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
MUSEUM OF THE ALBEMARLE
Sec. 19.  Funds appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources for the Museum of the Albemarle in this act shall be used for design and construction of new facilities for the Museum of the Albemarle.  The facility shall be sited in downtown Elizabeth City and funds appropriated in this act for this project may be used for the purchase of land if necessary.

Requested by: Senator Plexico
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER FUNDS
Sec. 20.  Section 31 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 31.  The funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Administration, the North Carolina Council for Women, for the 1993-94 fiscal year and for the 1994-95 fiscal year for domestic violence centers shall be allocated equally among domestic violence centers in operation on July 1, 1993, that offer services including a hotline, transportation services, community education programs, daytime services, and call forwarding during the night and that fulfill other criteria established by the Department of Administration.  Grants shall be awarded based on criteria established by the Department of Administration and disbursed on a quarterly basis.  The North Carolina Coalition against Domestic Violence, Incorporated, is eligible for a grant of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) under this section."

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
STATE VETERANS HOME
Sec. 21.  It is the intent of the General Assembly that no State funds shall be appropriated in future years to support operational costs of the State Veterans Home in Fayetteville.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
LEGISLATIVE REVIEW REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN CONVEYANCES OF STATE LAND
Sec. 22.  (a) G.S. 146-27 reads as rewritten:
"§ 146-27. The role of the Department of Administration in sales, leases, and rentals.
Every sale, lease, rental, or gift of land owned by the State or by any State agency shall be made by the Department of Administration and approved by the Governor and Council of State; provided that if the proposed disposition is a sale or gift of land with an appraised value of at least twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), the sale or gift shall not be made until after consultation with the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations. The Department of Administration may initiate proceedings for sales, leases, rentals, and gifts of land owned by the State or by any State agency."
(b) G.S. 146-74 reads as rewritten:
"§ 146-74. Approval of conveyances.
Every proposed conveyance in fee, including conveyances by gift, of State lands shall be submitted to the Governor and Council of State for their approval. If the proposed conveyance is of State lands with an appraised value of at least twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), and it is for other than a transportation purpose, the Council of State shall consult with the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations before making a final decision on the proposed conveyance. Upon approval of the proposed conveyance in fee by the Governor and Council of State, a deed for the land being conveyed shall be executed in the manner prescribed in this Article."
(c) G.S. 146-29.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 146-29.1. Lease or sale of real property for less than fair market value.
(a)	Real property owned by the State or any State agency may not be sold, leased, or rented at less than fair market value to any private entity that operates, or is established to operate for profit.
(b)	Real property owned by the State or by any State agency may be sold, leased, or rented at less than fair market value to a public entity. 'Public entity' means a county, municipal corporation, local board of education, community college, special district or other political subdivision of the State and the United States or any of its agencies. Any such sale, lease, or rental shall be reported at least 30 days prior to the sale, lease, or rental to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and the Fiscal Research Division of the Legislative Services Office, with the details of such transaction.
(c)	Real property owned by the State or by any State agency may be sold, leased, or rented at less than market value to a private, nonprofit corporation, association, organization or society upon a determination by the Department of Administration that such transaction is in consideration of public service rendered or to be rendered. The transaction shall be reported in detail at least 30 days prior to the sale, lease, or rental to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and the Fiscal Research Division of the Legislative Services Office. In the case of a private, nonprofit corporation, association, organization, or society that engages in some for-profit activities, the amount of the sale, lease, or rent shall be not less than the fair market value of the property times the percentage of the total activities of the corporation, association, organization, or society that are for profit.
(d)	Any sale, lease, or rental of real property made in conformity with the provisions of this section is not a violation of G.S. 66-58(a).
(e)	All sales, leases, or rentals, prior to July 15, 1986, of real property owned by the State or any State agency are not invalid because of a conflict with G.S. 66-58(a) or with a prior version of this section, but any renewal of any such lease or rental agreement on or after July 15, 1986, shall conform to the requirements of this section."

Requested by:   Senator Odom
POLK YOUTH CENTER REPLACEMENT/PRISON CONSOLIDATION
Sec. 23.  (a)	Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Administration, Office of State Construction, for the 1993-94 fiscal year, the sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) shall be used for design, for site preparation, and to begin construction as funds are available, of a replacement for Polk Youth Institution.
(b)	Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Administration, Office of State Construction, for the 1993-94 fiscal year, the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) shall be used for planning and site development to effect the consolidation of Granville, Halifax, Person, Warren, and Vance prison units.
(c)	The Office of State Construction of the Department of Administration may contract for and supervise all aspects of administration, technical assistance, design, construction, or demolition of prison facilities in order to implement the providing of prison facilities under the provisions of this section.
The facilities authorized under this section shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of general law applicable to the construction of State facilities.  If the Secretary of Administration, after consultation with the Secretary of Correction, finds that the delivery of prison facilities must be expedited for good cause, the Office of State Construction of the Department of Administration may use alternative delivery systems and shall be exempt from the following statutes and rules implementing those statutes, to the extent necessary to expedite delivery: G.S. 143-135.26(1), 143-128, 143-129, 143-131, 143-132, 143-134, 143-135.26, 113A-1 through 113A-10, 113A-50 through 113A-66, 133-1.1(g), and 143-408.1.
Prior to exercising the exemptions allowable under this section, the Secretary of Administration shall give reasonable notice in writing of the Department's intent to exercise the exemptions to the Speaker of the House, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the Chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety, and the Fiscal Research Division.  The written notice shall contain at least the following information: (i) the specific statutory requirement or requirements from which the Department intends to exempt itself; (ii) the reason the exemption is necessary to expedite delivery of prison facilities; (iii) the way in which the Department anticipates the exemption will expedite the delivery of prison facilities; and (iv) a brief summary of the proposed contract for the project which is to be exempted.
The Office of State Construction of the Department of Administration shall have a verifiable ten percent (10%) goal for participation by minority and women-owned businesses.  All contracts for the design, construction, or demolition of prison facilities shall include a penalty for failure to complete the work by a specified date.
The Office of State Construction of the Department of Administration shall consider alternative delivery systems that could expedite the delivery of prison facilities.  Such delivery systems as design-build, using modular or conventional building systems, shall be considered.  However, in order for such alternatives to be used, the Department of Correction must approve the proposed design for operational programming and cost of operations and maintenance.
The Office of State Construction of the Department of Administration shall involve the Department of Correction in all aspects of the projects to the extent that such involvement relates to the Department's program needs and to its responsibility for the care of the prison population.
(d)	The Office of State Construction of the Department of Administration shall provide quarterly reports to the Chair of the Appropriations Committee and the Base Budget Committee in the Senate, the Chairs of the Appropriations Committee in the House, the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, and the Fiscal Research Division as to any changes in projects and allocations made under this section. The report shall include any changes in the projects and allocations made pursuant to this section, information on which contractors have been selected, what contracts have been entered into, the projected and actual occupancy dates of facilities contracted for, the number of beds to be constructed on each project, the location of each project, and the projected and actual cost of each project.
The Department of Insurance and the Department of Correction shall report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on their involvement in the prison construction program.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
FEASIBILITY STUDY/RENOVATION OF OLD EDUCATION BUILDING
Sec. 24.  The Office of State Construction of the Department of Administration shall conduct a feasibility study on the renovation and repair of the Old Education Building.  In conducting the study the Office of State Construction shall review to what extent the Old Education Building should be renovated in order to render it suitable for office space, and whether that part of the Old Education Building that is not on the National Historic Register should be demolished and reconstructed.  The Office of State Construction shall report its findings and recommendations to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and to the Fiscal Research Division of the Legislative Services Office not later than March 1, 1994.

PART 11.  OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
LIMITATIONS ON CERTAIN FUNDS
Sec. 25.  If the funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Commerce and to the Office of the Governor for the following purposes are not expended for those purposes by June 30, 1994, the funds shall revert to the General Fund:
(1)	Department of Commerce for:
a.	Workforce Training Facility - Design, Construction, and Equipment;
b.	Reserve to Industrial Equipment, Industrial Training, and Economic Development; and
(2)	Office of the Governor to Reserve for Education Technology and Education Technology to Attract Industry.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
GOVERNOR'S OFFICE ECONOMIC INITIATIVES
Sec. 26. For the 1993-94 fiscal year only, the provisions of G.S. 143-16.3 do not apply to the following programs in the Office of the Governor:
(1)	The Total Quality Management Program,
(2)	The Governor's Executive Institute, and
(3)	The Economic Development Institute.

PART 12.  COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH CENTER FUNDS
Sec. 27.  Of the funds appropriated in Chapter 1044 of the 1991 Session Laws, Regular Session 1992, from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for the Engineering Graduate Research Center (EGRC) at North Carolina State University, up to one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) may be released and expended for equipment that will be located in the EGRC upon its completion.

Requested by: Senators Winner of Buncombe, Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
UNC ASHEVILLE LAND FUNDS
Sec. 28.  Of the funds appropriated in this act from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina, the sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year shall be used for the purchase of the Highland Hospital property, if that property is available for purchase, for the University of North Carolina at Asheville to allow for future campus growth.

Requested by: Senator Lee
UNC-CH EDUCATIONAL CONSORTIUM
Sec. 29.  Of the funds appropriated in this act to The Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) shall be allocated by the Board for a new cooperative educational consortium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  This consortium shall comply with the requirements of Section 101.2 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
LIMITATION ON UNC-CH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FUNDS
Sec. 30.  The six million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($6,750,000) appropriated to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina in this act for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Business shall not be obligated or expended prior to certification by the State Board of Elections of the results of the election on the question of issuing University Improvement Bonds in the election held as provided in the Education, Clean Water, and Parks Bond Act of 1993.  If the qualified voters of the State approve the issuance of University Improvement Bonds in that election, then the six million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($6,750,000) appropriated to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina in this act for the School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shall not be obligated or expended and shall revert to the General Fund at the end of the 1993-94 fiscal year.

PART 13.  DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES

Requested by:  Senator Perdue
COMMUNITY COLLEGES' CAPITAL PROJECTS REPORT ADDITION
Sec. 31.  In addition to the other considerations required in the State Board of Community Colleges' study and evaluation of the capital needs of the Community College System mandated by Section 11 of the Education, Clean Water, and Parks Bond Act of 1993, Senate Bill 14, if enacted, the State Board of Community Colleges shall also consider, in evaluating the rank order for capital projects, the following criteria, which are included in the Board's capital outlay resource allocation funding formula:
(1)	Space to population ratio;
(2)	Population served ratio;
(3)	Capacity enrollment ratio;
(4)	Local to State and Voc-Ed ratios;
(5)	Type of project; and
(6)	Readiness to implement.

PART 14.  PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
SMALL SCHOOL FORMULA/HOLD HARMLESS PROVISION
Sec. 32.  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 138.1 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws, for the 1993-94 school year only, the State Board of Education shall allocate funds appropriated for small school system supplemental funding in this act to any county school administrative units that:
(1)	Received funds appropriated for small school supplemental funding for the 1992-93 fiscal year,
(2)	Are located in a county in which the total average daily membership of all local school administrative units located within the county is from 3,000 to 4,000, and
(3)	Are located in a county in which the county adjusted property tax base per student is not below the State adjusted property tax base per student.
Each such county school administrative unit shall receive for the 1993-94 fiscal year the same amount it received for the 1992-93 fiscal year.

PART 15.  DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Requested by:  Senator Lee
DOT TO DEVELOP CRITERIA FOR NONBETTERMENT CONTRIBUTIONS
Sec. 33.  The Department of Transportation shall study and implement a program for the payment of nonbetterment costs for the relocation of water and sewer lines within existing State highway rights-of-way required by G.S. 136-27.1 and shall develop criteria for State participation in the relocation of water and sewer lines owned by counties and water and sewer districts based on:
(1)	Their ability to pay;
(2)	The per capita income of the populations served; and
(3)	The supporting tax base.
The Department of Transportation shall report on the criteria developed to the Joint Legislative Highway Oversight Committee and the Fiscal Research Division of the Legislative Services Office by October 1, 1993.

Requested by:  Senator Lee
SMALL HIGHWAY FUND AND HIGHWAY TRUST FUND PROJECT BIDDING
Sec. 34.  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 136-28.4(b), for Highway Fund or Highway Trust Fund projects of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) or less, the Board of Transportation may, after soliciting at least three informal bids in writing from Small Business Enterprises, award contracts to the lowest responsible bidder.  The Department of Transportation may identify projects likely to attract increased participation by Small Business Enterprises, and restrict the solicitation and award to those bidders.  The Board of Transportation may delegate full authority to award contracts, adopt necessary rules, and administer the provisions of this section to the Secretary of Transportation.
(b)	The letting of contracts under this section is not subject to any of the provisions of G.S. 136-28.1 relating to the letting of contracts.  The Department may waive the bonding requirements of Chapter 44A of the General Statutes and the licensing requirements of Chapter 87 for contracts awarded under this subsection.
(c)	The Secretary of Transportation shall report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee on the implementation of this section.

Requested by:  Senator Lee
MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT AND COMPLIANCE POSITIONS RECREATED
Sec. 35.  From funds available to the Department of Transportation from funding codes 84210, 84220, and 84260, the Department of Transportation may recreate three positions in Management Assessment and Compliance that were eliminated in the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 1993, Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan, Perdue
PLANNING FUNDS FOR REPLACEMENT TRESTLE
Sec. 36.  Of the funds appropriated in this act from the General Fund to the North Carolina Ports Railway Commission, the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year shall be used to plan for the replacement of the wooden trestle over the Newport River on the Beaufort and Morehead Railroad with a modern concrete trestle.
	The Attorney General and the Department of Transportation shall identify legal issues related to the design, construction, and operation of the new trestle and shall report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and to the Fiscal Research Division of the Legislative Services Office not later than March 1, 1994, on options available to resolve those issues.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
HIGHWAY 264 REST AREA
Sec. 37.  Funds appropriated in Chapter 900, Section 106, 1991 Session Laws, Regular Session 1992, for the construction of a rest area at U.S. Highway 264 in Beaufort County may also be used for the purchase of land to be used as a site for the rest area.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
DOT VEHICLES EXEMPTION
Sec. 38.  All State-owned passenger motor vehicles which are permanently assigned to the Department of Transportation or its individual employees are exempt from the minimum mileage requirements of G.S. 143-341(8)i.7a.  The Department shall report on the utilization of these vehicles to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and to the Joint Legislative Highway Oversight Committee on a quarterly basis beginning October 1, 1993.

Requested by: Senator Lee
TRANSPORTATION OVERSIGHT STUDY DIESEL FUEL CONSUMPTION
Sec. 39. (a)	The Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee created in G.S. 120-70.50 shall study the issue of the level of consumption of diesel fuel in this State as compared to surrounding states.  This study shall include all of the following:
(1)	Investigation of the extent to which the 1989 diesel fuel tax increase to a rate above that in other South Atlantic states may have resulted in a shift of truck fueling to other states, noncompliance with the tax law by interstate truckers, or both.
(2)	Analysis of the impact of the diesel fuel tax rate upon the level of consumption of liquid diesel fuel in this State and, as a result, upon Highway Fund revenues and North Carolina Highway Trust Fund revenues and upon the truckstop business in North Carolina.
(3)	Comparison of other states that have raised in-state fuel consumption by placing part of the fuel tax at the pump and collecting the remainder by reporting or otherwise.
(4)	Evaluation of the diesel fuel tax proposal outlined in Senate Bill 1088, Second Edition, 1993 Session, A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE TAX ON DIESEL FUEL SHALL BE PAID PARTLY AT THE PUMP AND PARTLY BY EITHER REPORTING OR ANNUAL REGISTRATION TAX.
(5)	Study of how these and other compliance measures can be used to enhance consumption of diesel fuel in this State.
(6)	Consideration of any other issues the Committee considers relevant.
(b) The Department of Transportation and the Department of Revenue shall provide the Committee any information it requires to conduct this study.  The Committee may make an interim report to the 1994 Session of the 1993 General Assembly and shall make a final report of the results of its study and any recommendations to the 1995 Session of the 1995 General Assembly on this study."

PART 16.  DEPARTMENT OF CRIME CONTROL AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
ALCOHOL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER ACCESS TO PUBLIC INFORMATION NETWORK
Sec. 40.  The Department of Crime Control and Public Safety may use up to forty-six thousand eight hundred dollars ($46,800) from forfeiture funds available in the 1993-94 fiscal year to provide access to the public information network by alcohol law enforcement officers.

PART 17.  DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Requested by: Senators Ballance, Odom
CENTRALIZED UTILIZATION OF LEGAL PUBLICATIONS
Sec. 41.  The Attorney General and the Director of the Budget shall conduct a review of the proliferation of legal publications used by State agencies, departments, and institutions to determine:
(1)	The most efficient utilization of legal publications; and
(2)	The feasibility of providing centralized access to legal publications, including the fiscal impact of providing for the centralized use and availability of legal publications.
The Attorney General and the Director of the Budget shall report their findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by March 31, 1994, by submitting a copy of the report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Fiscal Research Division.

PART 18.  DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Requested by:  Senator Richardson
DISTRIBUTION SPECIFICATIONS FOR AREA MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM CAPITAL FUNDS
Sec. 42.  (a) No area program shall receive more than ten percent (10%) of the total funds appropriated in the 1993-94 fiscal year by the General Assembly for area program capital needs.
(b) Capital funds awarded by the Department of Human Resources to area programs for projects in counties that fall within the last quartile of either per capita income, according to the North Carolina Data System 1990 Ranking, or of property valuation, according to the North Carolina Data System Ranking of 1990, shall not require a local match.  The Department shall require a dollar-for-dollar local match for capital funds awarded for projects in all other counties.
(c) All area program capital grants are subject to the Department of Human Resources' approval of the grant application.

Requested by: Senators Richardson, Walker
MEDICAID PLANNING FUNDS
Sec. 43.  Of the funds appropriated in this act from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources for the 1993-94 fiscal year, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) may be used to plan and design an eligibility system to provide Medicaid coverage to all Supplemental Security Income recipients, elderly, and disabled persons with incomes below seventy-five percent (75%) of the federal poverty guidelines, and additional children.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to obligate the State to provide Medicaid coverage to these individuals without further State appropriations for that purpose.

PART 19.  DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Requested by:  Senator Martin of Pitt
WAREHOUSE ACT FUNDS
Sec. 44.  (a)	G.S. 106-435 reads as rewritten:
"§ 106-435.  Fund for support of system; collection and investment.
In order to provide a sufficient indemnifying or guarantee fund to cover any loss not covered by the bonds hereinbefore mentioned, in order to provide the financial backing which is essential to make the warehouse receipt universally acceptable as collateral, and in order to provide that a State warehouse system intended to benefit all cotton growers in North Carolina shall be supported by the class it is designed to benefit, it is hereby declared: that on each bale of cotton ginned in North Carolina during the period from the ratification of this bill until June 30, 1922, twenty-five cents (25¢) shall be collected through the ginner of the bale and paid into the State treasury, to be held there as a special guarantee or indemnifying fund to safeguard the State warehouse system against any loss not otherwise covered. The State Tax Commission shall provide and enforce the machinery for the collection of this tax, which shall be held in the State treasury to the credit of the State warehouse system. Not less than ten per centum (10%) of the entire amount collected from the per bale tax shall be invested in United States government or farm loan bonds or North Carolina bonds, and the remainder may be invested in amply secured first mortgage notes or bonds to aid and encourage the establishment of warehouses operating under this system, and to aid and encourage the establishment of farm markets designed to serve the marketing, packaging, and grading needs for the sale and distribution of unprocessed farm commodities when adequate markets are not otherwise provided. Such investments shall be made by the Board of Agriculture, with the approval of the Governor and Attorney General: Provided, such first mortgages shall be for not more than one-half the actual value of the warehouse property covered by such mortgages, and run not more than 10 years: Provided further, that the interest received from all investments shall be available for appropriation for capital projects and nonrecurring expenditures as provided in the bill making the appropriation, and for the administrative expense of carrying into effect the provisions of this law, including the employment of such persons and such means as the State Board of Agriculture in its discretion may deem necessary: Provided further, that the guarantee fund, raised under the provisions of sections 4907 to 4925 of the Consolidated Statutes of 1919, shall become to all intents and purposes a part of guarantee fund to be raised under this law and subject to all the provisions hereof."
(b)	Of the funds available in accumulated interest from the North Carolina Warehouse Act Fund, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) shall be deposited into the General Fund as nontax revenues for the 1993-94 fiscal year to be used to support expenditures for capital projects or nonrecurring expenditures as provided in this act.

PART 20.  DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
CENTER FOR ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Sec. 45.  (a) Funds appropriated in this act from the General Fund for the 1993-94 fiscal year for the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$10,000,000 to the Department of Commerce for the design and construction of a facility for the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology.
(2)	$15,750,000 to the Department of Commerce to be placed in a reserve for the purchase and installation of advanced automotive industrial equipment, for office and other equipment, instructional materials, and for salary and support of eleven training instructors.
(3)	$10,000,000 to the Office of the Governor, Reserve for Education Technology, for the purchase and installation of telecommunications equipment and for computer network use and line charges for the facility.
(b)	The Department of Commerce and the Office of the Governor shall provide quarterly reports, beginning October 1, 1993, to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee.  The quarterly reports shall include:
(1)	Status reports on the design, construction, and equipping of the facility;
(2)	Information on the planned training, curriculum, and faculty costs;
(3)	Projected enrollment at the facility;
(4)	Anticipated number and type of jobs to be created in North Carolina by operation of this facility;
(5)	The long-range operating costs of the facility and training program over a five-year period beginning in 1994-95;
(6)	Information on cooperation with and involvement of the Community College system in items listed in subsection (a) of this section; and
(7)	Specific information on the expenditure of the Reserve for Education Technology in subsection (a)(3) of this section.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDS
Sec. 46.  (a)	Of the funds appropriated in this act from the General Fund to the Rural Economic Development Center, Inc., the sum of two million nine hundred thousand dollars ($2,900,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year shall be used to support community development projects and activities within the State's minority community.
Any community development corporation as defined in this section is eligible to apply for funds under this section. The Rural Economic Development Center, Inc., shall establish and implement criteria for new and emerging community development corporations to receive grants. The Rural Economic Development Center, Inc., shall allocate these funds as follows:
(1)	$900,000 for grants to new and emerging community development corporations for support and project activity.  These grants shall be based on performance.
(2)	$2,000,000 shall be allocated to the North Carolina Community Development Initiative, Inc.  The Initiative shall provide operating and project activity grants to mature community development corporations that have demonstrated project and organizational capacity.
The Rural Economic Development Center, Inc., and the North Carolina Community Development Initiative, Inc. shall each report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on the use of the funds allocated in this section.
For purposes of this section, the term "community development corporation" means a nonprofit corporation:
(1)	Chartered pursuant to Chapter 55A of the General Statutes;
(2)	Tax-exempt pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
(3)	Whose primary mission is to develop and improve low-income communities and neighborhoods through economic and related development;
(4)	Whose activities and decisions are initiated, managed, and controlled by the constituents of those local communities; and
(5)	Whose primary function is to act as deal-maker and packager of projects and activities that will increase their constituencies' opportunities to become owners, managers, and producers of small businesses, affordable housing, and jobs designed to produce positive cash flow and curb blight in the target community.
(b)	Of the funds appropriated in this act from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce, the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year shall be allocated to the North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development to foster minority economic development within the State through policy analysis, information and technical assistance, and resource expansion.  The North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development shall:
(1)	Update, maintain, and disseminate the annual survey and directory of minority-owned businesses;
(2)	Update, maintain, and disseminate the minority profile of the State;
(3)	Support a model minority business technical assistance program in conjunction with the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University;
(4)	Support a specialized and targeted training program on the unique needs and requirements of minority-owned businesses; and
(5)	Increase the number of Institute-sponsored interns.
The North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development shall report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on the use of these funds.
(c)	Of the funds appropriated in this act from the General Fund to the Rural Economic Development Center, Inc., the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year shall be allocated to the North Carolina Minority Credit Union Support Center, Inc., to provide technical assistance to minority-owned and other small credit unions. The Rural Economic Development Center, Inc., shall report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on the use of these funds.

PART 21.  DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
PARTNERSHIP FOR THE SOUNDS
Sec. 47.  The funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for the 1993-94 fiscal year for the Partnership for the Sounds shall be used to provide architectural, engineering, and development services for the design and construction of the Estuarine Educational Center in Beaufort County, the Lake Mattamuskeet Lodge in Hyde County, and the Walter B. Jones Center for the Sounds in Tyrrell County.  Up to sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) of these funds may be used for contracted personal services.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
PARKS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
Sec. 48.  Of the funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for the 1993-94 fiscal year, the sum of two million one hundred thousand dollars ($2,100,000) shall be used for improvements related to health, safety, and access, and for land acquisitions in State parks.  Prior to expending or obligating any of the funds allocated by this section, the Department shall report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and to the Office of State Budget and Management on the proposed use of the funds.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
STATE PARKS
Sec. 49.  Of the funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for land purchase in the State Parks System, the sum of up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) may be spent by the Division of Parks and Recreation for operating expenses associated with the acquisition of land.

Requested by: Senators Cochrane, Smith, Tally, Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
FORESTRY HEADQUARTERS
Sec. 50.  Of the funds appropriated in this act from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, the sum of one million four hundred forty-eight thousand one hundred dollars ($1,448,100) for the 1993-94 fiscal year shall be used to replace District 6 Headquarters in Fayetteville and for county headquarters in Davidson, Henderson, Mitchell, Scotland, and Wayne counties.  Funds remaining after these expenditures shall be used for needed repair or replacement of county headquarters in other counties.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FUNDS
Sec. 51.  (a)	Of the funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources for the 1993-94 fiscal year the sum of seven million nine hundred eight thousand dollars ($7,908,000) shall be used for water resources development projects, and the sum of one million one hundred eighty thousand dollars ($1,180,000) shall be used for small watershed projects.  The Department shall allocate funds for the following projects whose estimated costs are as indicated:
(1)	Wilmington Harbor
Deepening Study	$  612,000

(2)	Morehead City
Harbor Deepening	 3,825,000

(3)	Jordan Lake Water
Supply Repayment	   130,000

(4)	Wilmington Harbor
Ocean Bar Deepening	 1,016,000

(5)	Aquatic Plant
Control	   150,000

(6)	Wrightsville Beach
Renourishment	   400,000

(7)	Wanchese Channel
Maintenance	   280,000

(8)	State-Local Projects	   300,000

(9)	North Channel
Maintenance Dredging	   523,000

(10)	Hamlet City Lake	   377,000

	(11)	Cape Fear Above
Wilmington Channel
Maintenance	   100,000

(12)	Wilmington Harbor
25-feet Project	   125,000

(13)	Dare County Beaches 	    70,000

(14)	Limestone Creek	   180,000
(Duplin County)

(15)	Deep Creek	   250,000
(Yadkin County)

(16)	Town Fork	400,000
(Stokes County)

(17)	Meadow Branch	350,000.
(Robeson County)
(b)	Where the actual costs are different from the estimated costs under subsection (a) of this section, the Department may adjust the allocations among projects as needed.  If any projects listed in subsection (a) of this section are delayed and the budgeted State funds cannot be used during the 1993-94 fiscal year, or if the projects listed in subsection (a) of this section are accomplished at a lower cost, the Department may use the resulting fund availability to fund:
(1)	Corps of Engineers project feasibility studies, or
(2)	Corps of Engineers projects whose schedules have advanced and require State matching funds in fiscal year 1993-94, or 
(3)	State-local Water Resources Development Projects.
Funds not expended or encumbered for these purposes shall revert to the General Fund at the end of the 1994-95 fiscal year.
(c)	Beginning October 1, 1993, the Department shall make quarterly reports on the use of these funds to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, the Fiscal Research Division, and the Office of State Budget and Management.  Each report shall include:
(1)	All projects listed in this section;
(2)	The estimated cost of each project;
(3)	The date that work on each project began or is expected to begin;
(4)	The date that work on each project was completed or is expected to be completed; and
(5)	The actual cost of each project.
The quarterly reports shall also show those projects advanced in schedule, those projects delayed in schedule, and an estimate of the amount of funds expected to revert to the General Fund.

PART 22.  MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
RESERVE FOR ADVANCE PLANNING
Sec. 52.  The Office of State Budget and Management shall report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and to the Fiscal Research Division on how it intends to spend funds from the Reserve for Advance Planning at least 45 days before it spends the funds.
	The Office of State Budget and Management shall also report the results of any project on which it uses funds from the Reserve for Advance Planning to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations and to the Fiscal Research Division.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
ENCUMBERED APPROPRIATIONS AND PROJECT RESERVE FUND
Sec. 53.  When each capital improvement project appropriated by the 1993 General Assembly, other than those projects under the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina, is placed under construction contract, direct appropriations shall be encumbered to include all costs for construction, design, investigation, administration, movable equipment, and a reasonable contingency.  Unencumbered direct appropriations remaining in the project budget shall be placed in a project reserve fund credited to the Office of State Budget and Management.  Funds in the project reserve may be used for emergency repair and renovation projects at State facilities with the approval of the Director of the Budget.  The project reserve fund may be used, at the discretion of the Director of the Budget, to allow for award of contracts where bids exceed appropriated funds, if those projects supplemented were designed within the scope intended by the applicable appropriation or any authorized change in it, and if, in the opinion of the Director of the Budget, all means to award contracts within the appropriation were reasonably attempted.  At the discretion of the Director of the Budget, any balances in the project reserve fund shall revert to the original source.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
PROJECT COST INCREASE
Sec. 54.  Upon the request of the administration of a State department or institution, the Director of the Budget may, when in the Director's opinion it is in the best interest of the State to do so, increase the cost of a capital improvement project.  Provided, however, that if the Director of the Budget increases the cost of a project, the Director shall report that action to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations at its next meeting.  The increase may be funded from gifts, federal or private grants, special fund receipts, excess patient receipts above those budgeted at University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill, or direct capital improvement appropriations to that department or institution.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
NEW PROJECT AUTHORIZATION
Sec. 55.  Upon the request of the administration of any State department or institution, the Governor may authorize the construction of a capital improvement project not specifically authorized by the General Assembly if such project is to be funded by gifts, federal or private grants, special fund receipts, excess patient receipts above those budgeted at University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill, or self-liquidating indebtedness.  Provided, however, that if the Director of the Budget authorizes the construction of such a capital improvement project, the Director shall report that action to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations at its next meeting.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
ADVANCE PLANNING OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
Sec. 56.  Funds which become available by gifts, excess patient receipts above those budgeted at University of North Carolina Hospitals at Chapel Hill, federal or private grants, receipts becoming a part of special funds by act of the General Assembly or any other funds available to a State department or institution may be utilized for advance planning through the working drawing phase of capital improvement projects, upon approval of the Director of the Budget.  The Director of the Budget may make allocations from the Advance Planning Fund for advance planning through the working drawing phase of capital improvement projects, except that this revolving fund may not be utilized by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina or the State Board of Community Colleges.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
APPROPRIATIONS LIMITS/REVERSION OR LAPSE
Sec. 57.  Except as permitted in previous sections of this act, the appropriations for capital improvements made by the 1993 General Assembly may be expended only for specific projects set out by the 1993 General Assembly and for no other purpose.  Construction of all capital improvement projects enumerated by the 1993 General Assembly shall be commenced, or self-liquidating indebtedness with respect to them shall be incurred, within 12 months following the first day of the fiscal year in which the funds are available.  If construction contracts on those projects have not been awarded or self-liquidating indebtedness has not been incurred within that period, the direct appropriation for those projects shall revert to the original source, and the self-liquidating appropriation shall lapse; except that direct appropriations may be placed in a reserve fund as authorized in this act.  This deadline with respect to both direct and self-liquidating appropriations may be extended with the approval of the Director of the Budget up to an additional 12 months if circumstances and conditions warrant such extension.

Requested by: Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
1993-94 APPROPRIATIONS LIMITATIONS AND DIRECTIONS APPLY
Sec. 58.  Except where expressly repealed or amended by this act, the provisions of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws remain in effect.

Requested by:  Senators Daniel, Plyler, Kaplan
EFFECTIVE DATE
Sec. 59.  Except as otherwise provided, this act becomes effective July 1, 1993.