A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the board of governors of the university of north carolina for the center for design innovation, an interinstitutional center of the north carolina school of the arts and winston‑salem state university.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of four hundred seventy thousand dollars ($470,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred seventy thousand dollars ($470,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to be allocated to the Center for Design Innovation, an interinstitutional center of the North Carolina School of the Arts and Winston‑Salem State University that brings together students, faculty, entrepreneurs, business, industry, the arts, and the community to embrace both the importance of design and the power of innovation.
The Center, established in 2004, combines design‑based educational programming, research, and commercialization activities under one roof.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.