A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety to construct a new emergency operations center as a portion of the new Readiness Center for the North Carolina National Guard, as recommended by the joint study COMMITTEE on emergency preparedness and disaster management recovery.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety the sum of eight million two hundred forty thousand dollars ($8,240,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to provide the State funds required to match federal funds for the construction cost of a new Readiness Center for the North Carolina National Guard that will also house a new Emergency Operations Center for the State of North Carolina.  Of the funds appropriated by this act, the sum of up to four hundred forty thousand dollars ($440,000) may be used for planning and designing the new Emergency Operations Center.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.