A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to reimburse counties and cities for funds withheld during the 2001‑2002 Fiscal Year.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund the sum of two hundred nine million dollars ($209,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to reimburse the cities and counties for funds withheld by the Governor during the 2001‑2002 fiscal year.  The funds appropriated by this act shall be distributed to the cities and counties in proportion to the amounts that would have been distributed to the cities and counties in the 2001‑2002 fiscal year had the funds not been withheld.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.