A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for additional dna technicians for the state bureau of investigation.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Justice the sum of four hundred eighty‑nine thousand seven hundred dollars ($489,700) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to provide funding for four additional DNA technicians for the State Bureau of Investigation in order to expedite and improve the processing, analysis, and quality review of convicted offender DNA samples and the uploading of that data into state and federal DNA databases. These funds may also be used to supplement critical equipment needs and for the outsourcing of offender samples to private laboratories for analysis.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.