A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of commerce for the state's resource conservation and development councils.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year to provide each of the State's 10 Resource Conservation and Development Councils a fifty-thousand-dollar ($50,000) grant to be used and leveraged as start-up funding for projects in each council such as agriculture and rural waste management, water quality, tobacco replacement crops, eco‑tourism, and stream restoration.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.