A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the issuance of special indebtedness for equipment costs of the Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders and to make an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the system.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  In accordance with G.S. 142‑83, this section authorizes the issuance or incurrence of special indebtedness in the maximum aggregate principal amount of one hundred six million dollars ($106,000,000) to finance the equipment costs of the Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders coordinated by the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. The State, with the prior approval of the State Treasurer and the Council of State, as provided in Article 9 of Chapter 142 of the General Statutes, is authorized to issue or incur special indebtedness in order to provide funds to the State to be used, together with other available funds, to pay the equipment costs of the project described in this section.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety the sum of seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($7,500,000) for each year of the 2007‑2009 fiscal biennium for the support and maintenance of the Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders.  It is the intent of the General Assembly that this become a recurring appropriation.
SECTION 3.  Section 2 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2007.  The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.