A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for capital improvements and transportation needs of the INTERNATIONAL home furnishings market.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year and the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year for the International Home Furnishings Market.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$2,000,000 for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year to enhance and improve the Market's transportation terminal.
(2)	$500,000 for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year and $500,000 for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to provide shuttle service to the Market's 80,000 annual visitors.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.