A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to franklin and nash counties for broadband grants.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year to be allocated to Franklin and Nash Counties equally. The Counties shall use these funds to provide grants to unaffiliated qualified private providers of high-speed Internet service for expanding service in unserved areas for economic development in Franklin and Nash Counties, as provided in G.S. 153A‑349.60.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2017.