A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to operation spring plant.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to Operation Spring Plant, Inc., a nonprofit organization, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to be used to expand its services and programs to small family farmers. The mission of Operation Spring Plant is to provide an environmentally safe food product and technical and financial support to minority and limited resource and small family farmers who need assistance engaging in timely seasonal planting activities, finding markets for the sale of their crops, and sustaining their farming livelihood and operation.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.