A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the north carolina indian economic development initiative.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2012‑2013 fiscal year to be used for the North Carolina Indian Economic Development Initiative for the advocacy and facilitation of economic development in North Carolina's American Indian communities by promoting American Indian business expansion, opportunities, and partnerships and by assisting in the creation and retention of viable, capable, and competitive American Indian businesses and entrepreneurs that create sustainable jobs and assets.  These funds are in addition to the appropriation of ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) in recurring funds appropriated for the 2012‑2013 fiscal year by S.L. 2011‑145 to the Department of Commerce to be used for the North Carolina Indian Economic Development Initiative.  The funds appropriated by this act shall not revert.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2012.