A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide additional disaster relief in response to Hurricane florence.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

part i. appropriations/availability/allocations of funds for Hurricane Florence disaster relief 
SECTION 1.1.  The appropriations and allocations made in this act are for maximum amounts necessary to implement this act. Savings shall be effected where the total amounts appropriated or allocated are not required to implement this act.
SECTION 1.2.  There is appropriated from the Hurricane Florence Disaster Recovery Fund the sum of two hundred ninety‑nine million eight hundred thousand dollars ($299,800,000) for the 2018‑2019 fiscal year.
SECTION 1.3.  The funds appropriated in Section 1.2 of this act in the Hurricane Florence Disaster Recovery Fund created in S.L. 2018‑134 shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	Twenty‑three million five hundred thousand dollars ($23,500,000) to the Department of Public Instruction to be used to repair and renovate facilities of local school administrative units, laboratory schools, and innovative schools damaged by Hurricane Florence, and to repair or replace damaged furnishings and equipment of those facilities.
(2)	One million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) to the Department of Public Instruction to be used to repair or replace food, food nutrition equipment, and food nutrition supplies damaged by Hurricane Florence in local school administrative units, laboratory schools, charter schools, and innovative schools participating in the National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.
(3)	Two hundred forty million dollars ($240,000,000) to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Hurricane Florence Agricultural Disaster Program of 2018, established in Section 5.11 of S.L. 2018‑136, as amended by Section 2.5 of this act.
(4)	Five million dollars ($5,000,000) to the Office of State Budget and Management for The Golden L.E.A.F. (Long‑Term Economic Advancement Foundation), Inc., a nonprofit corporation, to provide grants to eligible entities capable of making loans to small businesses affected by Hurricane Florence. These funds shall not be subject to G.S. 143C‑6‑23(d).
(5)	Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to the Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Marine Fisheries to be used for commercial fishing assistance. 
(6)	Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to the Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Coastal Management to be used for the nonfederal match to funding provided through the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture for the removal of marine debris deposited along the shorelines of state‑owned lands. If the Division of Coastal Management does not receive EWP funding, this allocation shall be used as provided in Section 5.12 of S.L. 2018‑136.
(7)	Fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) to the Wildlife Resources Commission to conduct the study required in this act.
(8)	Eighteen million five hundred thousand dollars ($18,500,000) to the Department of Environmental Quality for the Coastal Storm Damage Mitigation Fund. Notwithstanding G.S. 143‑215.73M(c), funds allocated by this subdivision may be used to provide no more than fifty percent (50%) of the nonfederal share for a federally funded eligible project, and no more than fifty percent (50%) of the total cost of an eligible project that is not federally funded. For purposes of this subdivision, an "eligible project" is a project that mitigates or remediates coastal storm damage to the ocean beaches and dune systems of the State.
(9)	One million dollars ($1,000,000) to the Judicial Department for the replacement of equipment and supplies, contractual services, and additional travel and personnel costs for additional court sessions required as a result of disaster‑related courthouse closures.

SECTION 1.4.  The availability for Hurricane Florence disaster recovery activities in this act is set out below:
Total Hurricane Florence Disaster Recovery Activities Availability
	as provided in Section 2.1(b) of S.L. 2018‑136	$	849,430,477
Less Appropriations in S.L. 2018‑134	$	56,500,000
Less Appropriations in S.L. 2018‑136	$	398,430,477
Less Additional FY 2018‑19 Appropriations	$	299,800,000
Unappropriated Balance Remaining	$	94,700,000

part iI. effective date
SECTION 2.1.  Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law.