A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT To appropriate matching funds to the department of agriculture and consumer services to be used to control the sweet potato weevil.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year and the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to be placed in a reserve account.  Funds in the reserve account may be used only when matched with funds from the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission, Inc.  Funds in the reserve account shall be used to support efforts  by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to control the sweet potato weevil.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective 1 July 2003.