A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the land loss prevention project.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to be allocated to the Land Loss Prevention Project for the purpose of: (i) continuing expansion of legal representation to financially distressed small farmers and rural landowners in underserved tobacco dependent communities; and (ii) providing funding for the Black Family Land Trust.  The Land Loss Prevention Project shall not use these funds to represent farmers who have income and assets that would make them financially ineligible for legal services under Part 1611 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.