AN ACT to provide emergency funding for the department of correction.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year for expenses related to unanticipated utility and health care costs. Funds that are unexpended and unencumbered as of the end of the 2005‑2006 fiscal year shall revert to the General Fund.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of May, 2006.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2005