A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to establish and support an agricultural program specialist in the emergency programs division of the department of agriculture and consumer services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Emergency Programs Division of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services the sum of eighty‑three thousand three hundred eighty‑four dollars ($83,384) in recurring funds for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to establish and support a full‑time agricultural emergency preparedness and response logistician. The logistician's duties shall include providing the Division with expert historical, agricultural, and logistics knowledge and advice during event planning and activation, physical logistics assistance during response exercises and events, and sound analyses of the Division's and Department's post‑event response summaries. 
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.