A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to upgrade viper base stations and to purchase associated software updates, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM EVALUATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety the sum of (i) twenty million five hundred fifty thousand two hundred sixty‑five dollars ($20,550,265) in nonrecurring funds for the 2018‑2019 fiscal year to be used to purchase VIPER base stations, base station upgrades, catch‑up service upgrades, and security monitoring and the sum of (ii) two million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($2,250,000) in recurring funds for the 2018‑2019 fiscal year to be used to purchase VIPER service upgrade assurance updates.
SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding G.S. 143C‑5‑2, there is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety the sum of fourteen million two hundred fifty thousand two hundred sixty‑five dollars ($14,250,265) in nonrecurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to be used to purchase VIPER base stations.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2018.