A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to establish the local festivals grant program.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Rural Economic Development Center, Inc., the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to establish the Local Festivals Grant Program.  The purpose of the Program is to support local festivals in rural communities.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.