A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to APPROPRIATE funding for the voice interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders (VIPER) system.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated form the General Fund to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, Division of State Highway Patrol, the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to continue the build out of the Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders (VIPER) system. The State Highway Patrol shall report any expenditure made for the build out of the VIPER system, and any planned expenditures for the continued build out of the VIPER system, to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee and the Joint Corrections, Crime Control, and Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee no later than March 31, 2009.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.