A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to increase the state funds to be used as matching funds for the expanded work demands of the soil and water conservation districts.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for the Division of Soil and Water Conservation to be used to increase from four thousand dollars ($4,000) for each Soil and Water Conservation District to, over a two‑year period, eight thousand dollars ($8,000) for each Soil and Water Conservation District to be used as matching funds needed to meet the expanded work demands of the Soil and Water Conservation Districts to provide direct assistance to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and to landowners and to serve as a local contact for the public regarding Department programs.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.