A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of agriculture and consumer services to provide for staffing and facility improvements to the veterinary diagnostic Laboratory system, to fund staff and facilities for the food and drug protection division, and to fund the emergency programs division multi‑hazard threat Database.
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 four million five hundred eighty‑nine thousand five hundred fifty dollars ($4,589,550) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to be allocated as follows:
(1)	$1,647,172 to be used by the Veterinary Division for Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory System staffing needs and facility improvements.
(2)	$1,980,378 to be used by the Food and Drug Protection Division for staffing needs and facility improvements.
(3)	$962,000 to be used by the Emergency Programs Division to fund the Multi‑Hazard Threat Database.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.