A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of justice to COMBAT THE MANUFACTURE OF Methamphetamine.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Justice the sum of five hundred eighty‑five thousand dollars ($585,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to combat the manufacture or production of methamphetamine.  Of the funds appropriated in this act, twenty‑five thousand dollars ($25,000) shall be used to lease additional space at the western laboratory of the State Bureau of Investigation and five hundred sixty thousand dollars ($560,000) shall be used to create seven new sworn drug chemist positions and two new sworn latent print examiner positions in the State Bureau of Investigation, effective January 1, 2005.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.