A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the General Assembly that the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute shall become a funded member of the Grassroots collaborative and shall receive a recurring allocation from funds appropriated to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the Grassroots Science Program in subsequent fiscal years based on the formula used by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to calculate the allocations for funded members of the Grassroots collaborative. 
SECTION 2.  If funds are appropriated by the 2007 General Assembly to a reserve for pending legislation, then of those funds the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year shall be used for the operating expenses of the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.