A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to direct, and appropriate funds for, the construction of a western crime laboratory facility at the western justice academy in edneyville AND to appropriate funds to provide staffing for the laboratory.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Justice shall construct a Western Regional Crime Laboratory to be located on the campus of the Western Justice Academy in Edneyville, consistent with plans developed by the Department pursuant to Section 15.4 of S.L. 2012‑142.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Justice the sum of fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000) for the 2013‑2014 fiscal year to provide the capital costs for construction of a Western Regional Crime Laboratory, as directed by Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Justice the sum of one million nine hundred thousand dollars ($1,900,000) for the 2013‑2014 fiscal year and the sum of one million nine hundred thousand dollars ($1,900,000) for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year to establish 19 positions to staff the Western Regional Crime Laboratory upon its completion.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2013.