A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE STATE HISTORIC SITES FUND IN THE DIVISION OF STATE HISTORIC SITES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Article 1 of Chapter 121 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read: 
"§ 121‑7.6.  State Historic Sites special fund.
(a)	Fund. – The State Historic Sites Fund is created as a special, interest‑bearing, and nonreverting fund in the Division of State Historic Sites. The Fund shall be treated as a special trust fund and shall be credited with interest by the State Treasurer pursuant to G.S. 147‑69.2 and G.S. 147‑69.3. The Fund shall be used for the operation, interpretation, maintenance, preservation, development, and expansion at all State Historic Sites. Funds are annually appropriated for these purposes in accordance with G.S. 143C‑1‑2.
(b)	Disposition of Fees. – Notwithstanding Chapter 146 of the General Statutes, all receipts derived from the lease or rental of property or facilities, disposition of structures or products of the land, and admissions and fees collected at the individual sites owned by or under the control of the Division of State Historic Sites shall be credited to the Fund.
(c)	Reports. – The Department shall submit to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, the House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on General Government, and the Fiscal Research Division by September 30 of each year a report on the Fund that shall include the source and amounts of all funds credited to the Fund and the purpose and amount of all expenditures from the Fund during the prior fiscal year.
(d)	This section does not apply to the Bentonville Battlefield Historic Site."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2011.