A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT appropriating funds for repairs and renovations of facilities on the grounds of the palmer memorial institute state historic site.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources the sum of two million eight hundred dollars ($2,800,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year for repairs and renovations of facilities located on the grounds of the Palmer Memorial Institute State Historic Site. These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$1,400,000 to renovate Kimball Hall for use as a multipurpose center and special exhibition facility.
(2)	$800,000 to upgrade the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum and the Carrie M. Stone Teachers' Cottage, which houses the site's visitors' center.
(3)	$600,000 to renovate the Massachusetts Congregational Women's House, which served as the Institute's economics practice house.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.