A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the marketing association for rehabilitation centers, Inc., (MARC), a nonprofit corporation, to purchase capital equipment and for other purposes.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to Marketing Association for Rehabilitation Centers, Inc., (MARC), a nonprofit organization serving a 21‑county region of western North Carolina, the sum of  one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to purchase capital equipment, make facility upgrades, and offset administrative start-up costs for its Custom Medical Products Initiative.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.