A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of insurance for the workers' compensation fund for the benefit of volunteer safety workers.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Insurance the sum of four million five hundred thousand dollars ($4,500,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year for the Workers' Compensation Fund, created under G.S. 58‑87‑10, to be used to provide workers' compensation benefits to members of volunteer fire departments or volunteer rescue/EMS units that are not part of a unit of local government and that are exempt from State income tax under G.S. 105‑130.11.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.