A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to construct facilities for health sciences programs at pitt community college.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of three million five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to construct facilities for health sciences programs at Pitt Community College. The college will secure matching funds for the construction of these facilities from local government, institutions, and donors. The purposes of this capital project are to:
(1)	Expand the classroom and laboratory facilities for the instruction of the college's health sciences programs such as Nursing, Respiratory Care, Medical Sonography, Radiography, Positron Emission Tomography, Polysomnography, Medical Assisting, and Occupational Therapy Assisting, and Therapeutic Massage. The expansion of the facilities will allow the college to increase the number of students it can train in these high demand health care professions.
(2)	Provide instructional space for the development of new health sciences technical programs requested by local and regional health care employers.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.