A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR EXCEPTIONAL GROWTH AT SOUTH PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Community Colleges System Office the sum of eighteen million dollars ($18,000,000) for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year for the construction of a convocation center/equine training center for South Piedmont Community College.  The center shall be located on land located between Wingate and Monroe that was recently acquired for the College.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Community Colleges System Office the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year and the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to initiate courses in or pertaining to equine science and information technology at South Piedmont Community College.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.