GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1432

Short Title:  Regional Film Commissions Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives McComas; McMahan and Easterling (Primary Sponsors).

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 29, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLEBILL D
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE REGIONAL FILM COMMISSIONS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND IN THE CITIES OF CHARLOTTE, WINSTON-SALEM, AND WILMINGTON.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce, Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to provide funding to the existing Regional Film Commissions in Western North Carolina and the Cities of Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and Wilmington.  The film industry has provided more than five billion dollars ($5,000,000,000) in motion picture, television, and commercial production spending and more than 100,000 jobs for North Carolinians since 1980.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.