A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE TRAVELING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to expand and maintain the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's innovative Traveling Science and Technology Education Program, which uses a bus as a mobile laboratory to take science education to school systems across the State. These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$400,000 for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year to purchase and equip a bus for use as an additional mobile laboratory.
(2)	$600,000 for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year to provide partial funding for operations of the Program.
(3)	$1,000,000 for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to maintain the additional bus and to provide partial funding for the Program.
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.