A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE Department of Health and Human Services TO BEGIN DEVELOPING PLANS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND FINANCING OF A STATE PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall develop plans for the construction of a new State Public Health Laboratory. The plans shall provide for siting, financing, and debt service retirement. The estimated cost of the construction is eighty million dollars ($80,000,000). The Department of Health and Human Services shall report on the development of the construction project to the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, and the Fiscal Research Division not later than January 1, 2006.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.