AN ACT authorizing the state board of elections to use hava funds and delaying the effective date of the ticket to work program.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The State Board of Elections is authorized to expend funds from the Election Fund under G.S. 163‑82.28 (HAVA funds) for maintenance performed on voting equipment, and funds in the amount of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) are hereby appropriated for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year for that purpose.
SECTION 2.  Section 10.18(c) of S.L. 2005‑276, as amended by Section 10.9(a) of S.L. 2006‑66, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 10.18.(c)  Subsection (b) of this section becomes effective July 1, 2006. Subsection (a) of this section becomes effective  July 1, 2008."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of June, 2007.

	s/	 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 2:08 p.m. this 29th day of June, 2007