A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to relocate and protect the css neuse gunboat.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources, Historic Sites Division, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to relocate and construct an environmentally controlled enclosure to preserve the Civil War CSS Neuse gunboat. The gunboat is the only commissioned Confederate ironclad in existence and will serve as an exhibit for a Civil War museum in the City of Kinston.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.