A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide for saturday interment services in state veterans cemeteries and to APPROPRIATE funds for this purpose.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Article 8A of Chapter 65 is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 65‑44. Days for burial.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, interment services shall be conducted from Monday through Saturday, except when the day for services falls on a State holiday."
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Administration, Division of Veteran Affairs, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to offset the cost of interments on Saturday as provided by this act. Allowances paid to North Carolina by the United States Veterans Administration for veterans' burials and private funds paid by individuals for burials (Veterans Burial, Budget Code 24102, Fund 2227) shall be used to cover any additional costs incurred as a result of interments on Saturday.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.