AN ACT to enact a base budget for certain state agencies, departments, and institutions for the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

part i. base budget appropriations

GENERAL FUND BASE BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS
SECTION 1.1.(a)  Appropriations from the General Fund for the budgets of the State agencies, departments, and institutions, and for other purposes as enumerated, are made for each year of the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium, according to the following schedule:
Current Operations – General Fund	FY 2019‑2020	FY 2020‑2021

EDUCATION
Community College System
	Requirements	1,561,623,007	1,561,623,007
	Less: Receipts	393,206,608	393,206,608
	Net Appropriation	1,168,416,399	1,168,416,399

Public Instruction
	Requirements	11,766,939,802	11,828,299,027
	Less: Receipts	2,180,566,432	2,180,566,432
	Net Appropriation	9,586,373,370	9,647,732,595

University of North Carolina
NC A&T University
	Requirements	179,603,455	179,603,455
	Less: Receipts	87,002,310	87,002,310
	Net Appropriation	92,601,145	92,601,145

NC School of Science and Mathematics
	Requirements	24,434,049	24,434,049
	Less: Receipts	1,796,561	1,796,561
	Net Appropriation	22,637,488	22,637,488

NC State University‑Academic Affairs
	Requirements	842,422,995	842,422,995
	Less: Receipts	422,169,898	422,169,898
	Net Appropriation	420,253,097	420,253,097

NC State University‑Agric. Research
	Requirements	72,542,781	72,542,781
	Less: Receipts	17,721,640	17,721,640
	Net Appropriation	54,821,141	54,821,141

NC State University‑Coop. Extension
	Requirements	55,529,168	55,529,168
	Less: Receipts	14,833,163	14,833,163
	Net Appropriation	40,696,005	40,696,005

North Carolina Central University
	Requirements	136,655,404	136,655,404
	Less: Receipts	51,822,380	51,822,380
	Net Appropriation	84,833,024	84,833,024

UNC at Asheville
	Requirements	61,661,158	61,661,158
	Less: Receipts	21,876,242	21,876,242
	Net Appropriation	39,784,916	39,784,916

UNC at Chapel Hill‑Academic Affairs
	Requirements	648,856,478	648,856,478
	Less: Receipts	371,403,527	371,403,527
	Net Appropriation	277,452,951	277,452,951

UNC at Chapel Hill‑Area Health Education
	Requirements	49,864,072	49,864,072
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	49,864,072	49,864,072

UNC at Chapel Hill‑Health Affairs
	Requirements	322,923,444	322,923,444
	Less: Receipts	122,612,306	122,612,306
	Net Appropriation	200,311,138	200,311,138

UNC at Charlotte
	Requirements	420,146,272	420,146,272
	Less: Receipts	164,780,562	164,780,562
	Net Appropriation	255,365,710	255,365,710

UNC at Greensboro
	Requirements	287,718,420	287,718,420
	Less: Receipts	109,591,257	109,591,257
	Net Appropriation	178,127,163	178,127,163

UNC at Pembroke
	Requirements	90,161,357	90,165,578
	Less: Receipts	13,264,333	13,264,333
	Net Appropriation	76,897,024	76,901,245

UNC at Wilmington
	Requirements	244,118,982	244,118,982
	Less: Receipts	98,550,341	98,550,341
	Net Appropriation	145,568,641	145,568,641

UNC Board of Governors
	Requirements	42,592,385	42,592,385
	Less: Receipts	46,899	46,899
	Net Appropriation	42,545,486	42,545,486

UNC BOG – Institutional Programs
	Requirements	43,905,784	43,905,784
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	43,905,784	43,905,784

UNC BOG – Related Educational Programs
	Requirements	164,000,476	164,000,476
	Less: Receipts	54,031,975	54,031,975
	Net Appropriation	109,968,501	109,968,501

UNC General Administration
	Requirements	181,349,756	191,349,756
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	181,349,756	191,349,756

UNC School of the Arts
	Requirements	49,623,526	49,623,526
	Less: Receipts	16,359,089	16,359,089
	Net Appropriation	33,264,437	33,264,437

Western Carolina University
	Requirements	159,162,027	159,195,028
	Less: Receipts	27,714,804	27,714,804
	Net Appropriation	131,447,223	131,480,224

Winston‑Salem State University
	Requirements	86,145,805	86,145,805
	Less: Receipts	22,495,553	22,495,553
	Net Appropriation	63,650,252	63,650,252

East Carolina Univ‑Academic Affairs
	Requirements	414,348,327	414,348,327
	Less: Receipts	182,150,292	182,150,292
	Net Appropriation	232,198,035	232,198,035

East Carolina Univ‑Health Affairs
	Requirements	90,335,813	90,335,813
	Less: Receipts	12,400,019	12,400,019
	Net Appropriation	77,935,794	77,935,794

Elizabeth City State University
	Requirements	38,867,498	38,867,498
	Less: Receipts	3,564,271	3,564,271
	Net Appropriation	35,303,227	35,303,227

Appalachian State University
	Requirements	261,386,484	261,386,484
	Less: Receipts	113,583,731	113,583,731
	Net Appropriation	147,802,753	147,802,753

Fayetteville State University
	Requirements	75,646,019	75,646,019
	Less: Receipts	21,734,797	21,734,797
	Net Appropriation	53,911,222	53,911,222

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Aging and Adult Services
	Requirements	108,121,012	108,121,012
	Less: Receipts	63,085,564	63,085,564
	Net Appropriation	45,035,448	45,035,448

Central Management and Support
	Requirements	197,603,008	197,603,008
	Less: Receipts	81,506,582	81,506,582
	Net Appropriation	116,096,426	116,096,426

Child Development and Early Education
	Requirements	322,175,882	331,525,882
	Less: Receipts	84,536,615	84,536,615
	Net Appropriation	237,639,267	246,989,267

Health Benefits (Medicaid and Health Choice)
	Requirements	14,875,059,304	14,875,069,384
	Less: Receipts	10,950,483,105	10,950,486,002
	Net Appropriation	3,924,576,199	3,924,583,382

Health Service Regulation
	Requirements	70,770,955	70,770,955
	Less: Receipts	51,912,899	51,912,899
	Net Appropriation	18,858,056	18,858,056

Mental Hlth/Dev. Disabl./Subs. Abuse Serv.
	Requirements	1,459,185,326	1,459,185,326
	Less: Receipts	717,067,519	717,067,519
	Net Appropriation	742,117,807	742,117,807

Public Health
	Requirements	868,242,868	867,943,612
	Less: Receipts	714,141,856	713,798,147
	Net Appropriation	154,101,012	154,145,465

Services for the Blind/Deaf/Hard of Hearing
	Requirements	42,677,017	42,694,285
	Less: Receipts	34,123,474	34,140,186
	Net Appropriation	8,553,543	8,554,099

Social Services
	Requirements	1,557,782,580	1,557,783,872
	Less: Receipts	1,363,651,976	1,363,652,866
	Net Appropriation	194,130,604	194,131,006

Vocational Rehabilitation Services
	Requirements	150,494,601	150,528,124
	Less: Receipts	111,221,410	111,246,271
	Net Appropriation	39,273,191	39,281,853

AGRICULTURE, NATURAL, AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES
Agriculture and Consumer Services
	Requirements	185,965,999	185,971,419
	Less: Receipts	59,329,628	59,329,628
	Net Appropriation	126,636,371	126,641,791

Commerce
	Requirements	267,812,887	267,812,887
	Less: Receipts	90,449,190	90,449,190
	Net Appropriation	177,363,697	177,363,697

Environmental Quality
	Requirements	193,918,082	193,892,959
	Less: Receipts	114,576,705	114,576,705
	Net Appropriation	79,341,377	79,316,254

Labor
	Requirements	37,106,127	37,126,948
	Less: Receipts	18,968,296	18,968,296
	Net Appropriation	18,137,831	18,158,652

Natural and Cultural Resources
	Requirements	220,996,431	221,000,740
	Less: Receipts	42,487,651	42,487,651
	Net Appropriation	178,508,780	178,513,089

Wildlife Resources Commission
	Requirements	75,630,859	75,630,859
	Less: Receipts	64,486,379	64,486,379
	Net Appropriation	11,144,480	11,144,480

JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Administrative Office of the Courts
	Requirements	557,476,262	557,694,915
	Less: Receipts	1,136,462	1,136,462
	Net Appropriation	556,339,800	556,558,453

Indigent Defense Services
	Requirements	133,735,671	133,739,847
	Less: Receipts	10,182,323	10,182,323
	Net Appropriation	123,553,348	123,557,524

Justice
	Requirements	88,131,669	88,136,232
	Less: Receipts	40,484,546	40,487,512
	Net Appropriation	47,647,123	47,648,720

Public Safety
	Requirements	2,332,787,149	2,332,876,685
	Less: Receipts	258,254,879	258,254,879
	Net Appropriation	2,074,532,270	2,074,621,806

GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Administration
	Requirements	73,387,880	73,387,880
	Less: Receipts	9,887,542	9,887,542
	Net Appropriation	63,500,338	63,500,338

Administrative Hearings
	Requirements	7,853,519	7,860,093
	Less: Receipts	1,684,910	1,684,910
	Net Appropriation	6,168,609	6,175,183

Auditor
	Requirements	20,143,575	20,143,575
	Less: Receipts	6,199,884	6,199,884
	Net Appropriation	13,943,691	13,943,691

Budget and Management
	Requirements	8,290,273	8,290,273
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	8,290,273	8,290,273

Budget and Management – Special Approp.
	Requirements	2,000,000	2,000,000
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	2,000,000	2,000,000

Controller
	Requirements	25,174,460	25,188,476
	Less: Receipts	846,028	846,028
	Net Appropriation	24,328,432	24,342,448

Elections
	Requirements	6,935,297	6,935,297
	Less: Receipts	102,000	102,000
	Net Appropriation	6,833,297	6,833,297

General Assembly
	Requirements	70,475,420	70,475,420
	Less: Receipts	861,000	861,000
	Net Appropriation	69,614,420	69,614,420

Governor
	Requirements	6,037,114	6,037,114
	Less: Receipts	898,760	898,760
	Net Appropriation	5,138,354	5,138,354

Housing Finance Agency
	Requirements	10,660,000	10,660,000
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	10,660,000	10,660,000

Insurance
	Requirements	49,109,619	49,112,642
	Less: Receipts	8,137,431	8,137,431
	Net Appropriation	40,972,188	40,975,211

Insurance – Industrial Commission
	Requirements	22,363,107	22,363,707
	Less: Receipts	13,053,262	13,053,262
	Net Appropriation	9,309,845	9,310,445

Lieutenant Governor
	Requirements	873,753	873,753
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	873,753	873,753

Military and Veterans Affairs
	Requirements	62,353,064	62,353,064
	Less: Receipts	53,160,945	53,160,945
	Net Appropriation	9,192,119	9,192,119

Revenue
	Requirements	146,213,204	146,280,481
	Less: Receipts	59,236,207	59,268,852
	Net Appropriation	86,976,997	87,011,629

Secretary of State
	Requirements	14,044,797	14,044,797
	Less: Receipts	291,456	291,456
	Net Appropriation	13,753,341	13,753,341

Treasurer
	Requirements	62,424,683	62,458,796
	Less: Receipts	57,559,579	57,593,692
	Net Appropriation	4,865,104	4,865,104

Treasurer – Additional Retirement Systems
	Requirements	29,360,641	29,360,641
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	29,360,641	29,360,641

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Department of Information Technology
	Requirements	53,914,125	53,914,125
	Less: Receipts	395,579	395,579
	Net Appropriation	53,518,546	53,518,546

RESERVES, DEBT, AND OTHER BUDGETS
General Debt Service
	Requirements	734,545,038	734,545,038
	Less: Receipts	18,653,595	18,653,595
	Net Appropriation	715,891,443	715,891,443

Federal Debt Service
	Requirements	1,616,380	1,616,380
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	1,616,380	1,616,380

Statewide Enterprise Resource Planning
	Requirements	0	0
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	0	0

Statewide Reserves
	Requirements	0	0
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	0	0

OSHR Minimum of Market Adjustment
	Requirements	2,624,316	2,624,316
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	2,624,316	2,624,316

	Total Requirements	43,528,638,698	43,609,596,010
	Less: Total Receipts	19,628,334,227	19,628,105,602
	Total Net Appropriation	23,900,304,471	23,981,490,408
SECTION 1.1.(b)  Consistent with the definition for the term "base budget" set forth in G.S. 143C‑1‑1, total requirements for the Department of Justice, Legal Services (Budget Code 13600, Fund Code 1200), are reduced by the recurring sum of three million fifty‑five thousand nine hundred seventy‑three dollars ($3,055,973) in each fiscal year of the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium.

CONFORMING CHANGES
SECTION 1.2.(a)  Subdivision (11) of Section 5 of S.L. 2019‑229 is repealed.
SECTION 1.2.(b)  Section 5 of S.L. 2019‑229, as amended by subsection (a) of this section, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 5.  To support implementation of the Raise the Age legislation, the sum of twenty‑seven million twenty‑three thousand thirty‑seven dollars ($27,023,037) for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year and the sum of thirty‑nine million six hundred forty‑six thousand three hundred ten dollars ($39,646,310) for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year are appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety as follows:
…."
SECTION 1.2.(c)  If Senate Bill 61, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, Section 1.2 of that act reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 1.2.  In addition to the appropriations set forth in S.L. 2019‑209 for the Community College System, and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to the Community College System, appropriations from the General Fund for the budget of the Community College System are made for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 2021, as follows:

Current Operations – General Fund	FY 2019‑2020	FY 2020‑2021

Community College System
	Requirements	$15,457,772	$12,442,390
	Less: Receipts	(12,759,216)	(12,994,216)
	Net Appropriation	28,216,988	25,436,606."
SECTION 1.2.(d)  Subsection (ff) of Section 1.1 of S.L. 2019‑192 is repealed.
SECTION 1.2.(e)  If House Bill 398, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, then Section 1.2 of that act reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 1.2.  In addition to the appropriations set forth in S.L. 2019‑230 for the Department of Information Technology and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to the DIT, appropriations from the General Fund for the budget of the Department of Information Technology are made for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 2021, as follows:

Current Operations – General Fund	FY 2019‑2020	FY 2020‑2021

Department of Information Technology
	Requirements	$13,759,233	$15,283,879
	Less: Receipts	0	0
	Net Appropriation	13,759,233	15,283,879."

SECTION 1.2.(f)  If Senate Bill 683, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, then Section 5.2 of that act reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 5.2.  In addition to the appropriations set forth in S.L. 2019‑209 for the State Board of Elections, appropriations from the General Fund for the budget of the State Board of Elections are made for the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 2021, as follows:

Current Operations – General Fund	FY 2019‑2020	FY 2020‑2021
Elections
Requirements	$1,156,004	$44,923
Less: Receipts	$0	$0
Net Appropriation	$1,156,004	$44,923."

part ii. availability statement

GENERAL FUND AVAILABILITY
SECTION 2.1.  The General Fund availability derived from State tax revenue, nontax revenue, and other adjustments used in developing the base budget for each year of the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium is as follows:
	FY 2019‑2020	FY 2020‑2021
Unappropriated Balance	645,592,678	2,484,667,747
Actual and Anticipated Reversions	287,029,354	200,000,000
Over Collections	896,662,617	‑
Highway Fund Recovery Act (S.L. 2019‑15)	(120,000,000)	‑
Total, Prior Year‑End Fund Balance	1,709,284,649	2,684,667,747

Tax Revenues		
	Personal Income	13,110,400,000	13,700,300,000
	Sales and Use	8,141,200,000	8,486,500,000
	Corporate Income	732,600,000	787,600,000
	Franchise	749,700,000	769,900,000
	Insurance	565,300,000	579,800,000
	Alcoholic Beverage	411,500,000	425,700,000
	Tobacco Products	256,200,000	254,900,000
	Other Tax Revenues	132,700,000	136,400,000
	Subtotal, Tax Revenues	24,099,600,000	25,141,100,000

Nontax Revenues		
	Judicial Fees	228,800,000	225,300,000
	Investment Income	167,200,000	168,300,000
	Disproportionate Share	165,300,000	130,000,000
	Master Settlement Agreement	136,200,000	131,800,000
	Insurance	87,800,000	90,100,000
	Other Nontax Revenues	202,800,000	204,300,000
	Subtotal, Nontax Revenues	988,100,000	949,800,000

Total, Net Revenues	25,087,700,000	26,090,900,000

Adjustment to Tax Revenue: 2019 Session		
	Extend Tax Credits/Other Finance Changes
		(HB 399, Ratified)	(3,900,000)	(16,500,000)
	Subtotal, Adjustments to Tax Revenue	(3,900,000)	(16,500,000)

Reservations of Tax Revenue		
	Savings Reserve	(38,850,000)	(154,335,000)
	Subtotal, Statutory Reservations of Revenue	(38,850,000)	(154,335,000)

Other Adjustments to Availability		
	Adjustment to Transfer from Department of Insurance
		(S.L. 2019‑209)	1,249,541	2,700,421
	Adjustment to Transfer from State Treasurer
		(S.L. 2019‑209)	41,913	91,132
	NC G.R.E.A.T. Program Funding (S.L. 2019‑230)	(15,000,000)	(15,000,000)
	Subtotal, Other Adjustments to Availability	(13,708,546)	(12,208,447)

Revised Total Net General Fund Availability	26,779,376,103	28,746,859,300

General Fund Appropriations		
	Base Budget (HB 111)	(23,900,304,471)	(23,981,490,408)
	Ensuring Authorization of Federal Funds
		(S.L. 2019‑192, as amended)	5,326,726	15,223,842
	Salary Increases/Adult Correctional Employees
		(S.L. 2019‑208)	(35,914,734)	(56,829,468)
	Pay Increases/State Employees (S.L. 2019‑209)	(239,220,554)	(572,705,157)
	Pay Increases/State Highway Patrol (S.L. 2019‑210)	(3,600,000)	(7,200,000)
	Pay Increases/SBI & ALE (S.L. 2019‑211)	(2,680,000)	(3,360,000)
	Standing Up for Rape Victims Act of 2019
		(S.L. 2019‑221)	(3,000,000)	(3,000,000)
	School Safety Funds, Programs, and Reports
		(S.L. 2019‑222)	(38,833,333)	(29,800,000)
	Prison Safety/TANF State Plan/Clarifications
		(S.L. 2019‑223)	(4,471,149)	‑
	Raise the Age Funding (S.L. 2019‑229, as amended)	(28,878,616)	(43,402,450)
	Community Colleges Budget/2019‑2021 Biennium
		(SB 61, Ratified, as amended)	(28,216,988)	(25,436,606)
	Info. Tech Budget/2019‑2021 Fiscal Biennium
		(HB 398, as amended)	(13,759,233)	(15,283,879)
	Combat Absentee Ballot Fraud (SB 683, as amended)	(1,156,004)	(44,923)
	Total General Fund Net Appropriations	(24,294,708,356)	(24,723,329,049)

Unappropriated Balance Remaining	2,484,667,747	4,023,530,251
SECTION 2.2.  The State Controller shall transfer funds to the Savings Reserve in accordance with G.S. 143C‑4‑2. Funds reserved in the Savings Reserve do not constitute an "appropriation made by law," as that phrase is used in Section 7(1) of Article V of the North Carolina Constitution.
SECTION 2.3.(a)  Receivables described in subsection (b) of this section reserved at the end of the 2019‑2020 and 2020‑2021 fiscal years shall, when received, be accounted for as nontax revenue for each of those fiscal years.
SECTION 2.3.(b)  For the 2019‑2020 fiscal year, the Department of Health and Human Services shall deposit from its revenues one hundred sixty‑five million three hundred thousand dollars ($165,300,000) with the Department of State Treasurer to be accounted for as nontax revenue. For the 2020‑2021 fiscal year, the Department of Health and Human Services shall deposit from its revenues one hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000) with the Department of State Treasurer to be accounted for as nontax revenue. These deposits shall represent the return of General Fund appropriations, nonfederal revenue, fund balances, or other resources from State‑owned and State‑operated hospitals that are used to provide indigent and nonindigent care services. The return from State‑owned and State‑operated hospitals to the Department of Health and Human Services will be made from nonfederal resources in an amount equal to the amount of the payments from the Division of Health Benefits for uncompensated care. The treatment of any revenue derived from federal programs shall be in accordance with the requirements specified in the Title 2, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 225.

PART III. general PROVISIONS

INTRODUCTION
SECTION 3.1.  The appropriations made in this act, and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, are for maximum amounts necessary to provide the services and accomplish the purposes for the applicable agency, department, or institution in accordance with the State Budget Act. Savings shall be effected where the total amounts appropriated are not required to perform these services and accomplish these purposes, and the savings shall revert to the appropriate fund at the end of each fiscal year, except as otherwise provided by law.

TOTAL FUNDS APPROPRIATED
SECTION 3.2.  The requirements set forth in this act, and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, represent the total amount of funds, including agency receipts, appropriated to an agency, a department, or an institution.

OTHER APPROPRIATIONS
SECTION 3.3.(a)  Except for the budget codes for the Community College System, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Information Technology, all budget codes listed in the Governor's Recommended Budget Support Document for the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium, submitted pursuant to G.S. 143C‑3‑5, are appropriated up to the amounts specified, as adjusted by the General Assembly in this act. If Senate Bill 61, 2019 Regular Session, does not become law, all budget codes for the Community College System listed in the Governor's Recommended Budget Support Document for the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium, submitted pursuant to G.S. 143C‑3‑5, are appropriated up to the amounts specified, as adjusted by the General Assembly in this act. If House Bill 398, 2019 Regular Session, does not become law, all budget codes for the Department of Information Technology listed in the Governor's Recommended Budget Support Document for the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium, submitted pursuant to G.S. 143C‑3‑5, are appropriated up to the amounts specified, as adjusted by the General Assembly in this act.
SECTION 3.3.(b)  Receipts collected in a fiscal year in excess of the amounts appropriated by this section shall remain unexpended and unencumbered until appropriated by the General Assembly, unless the expenditure of overrealized receipts in the fiscal year in which the receipts were collected is authorized by G.S. 143C‑6‑4. Overrealized receipts are appropriated in the amounts necessary to implement this subsection.
SECTION 3.3.(c)  Funds may be expended only for the specified programs, purposes, objects, and line items or as otherwise authorized by the General Assembly.

STATE BUDGET ACT APPLIES
SECTION 3.4.  The provisions of the State Budget Act, Chapter 143C of the General Statutes, are reenacted and shall remain in full force and effect and are incorporated in this act by reference.

CONSTRUCTION
SECTION 3.5.(a)  This act is for the maintenance of the various departments, institutions, and other spending agencies of the State for the 2019‑2021 biennial budget as provided in G.S. 143C‑3‑5. This act includes the appropriations of State funds as defined in G.S. 143C‑1‑1(d)(25). In the event that there is a conflict between the line‑item budget certified by the Director of the Budget and this act, this act shall prevail.
SECTION 3.5.(b)  The Director of the Budget submitted a recommended base budget to the General Assembly in the Governor's Recommended Budget for the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium, dated March 2019, and in the Budget Support Document for the various departments, institutions, and other spending agencies of the State. The adjustments to the recommended base budget made by the General Assembly are set out in this act and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act.

ADDITIONAL LIMITATIONS AND DIRECTIONS
SECTION 3.6.(a)  Except where expressly repealed or amended by this act, the provisions of S.L. 2019‑9, 2019‑15, 2019‑192, 2019‑208, 2019‑209, 2019‑210, 2019‑211, 2019‑221, 2019‑222, 2019‑223, 2019‑224, and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, shall remain in effect.
SECTION 3.6.(b)  All of the following limitations and directions apply:
(1)	Except as otherwise provided in this act and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, the limitations and directions on the expenditure of funds for the prior fiscal biennium shall remain in effect.
(2)	Vacant positions subject to proposed budget reductions in the ratified version of House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session, shall not be filled.
(3)	Public school employees paid on the teacher salary schedule, the school‑based administrator salary schedule, or any other salary schedule established by State law shall not move up on salary schedules or receive automatic step increases until authorized by the General Assembly. If House Bill 377, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, this subdivision is repealed.
(4)	Funds shall not be reserved to the Repairs and Renovations Reserve or the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund, and the State Controller shall not transfer funds from the unreserved fund balance to those reserves on June 30 of the prior fiscal year.

MOST TEXT APPLIES ONLY TO THE 2019‑2021 FISCAL BIENNIUM
SECTION 3.7.  The textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium.

EFFECT OF HEADINGS
SECTION 3.8.  The headings to the Parts and sections of this act are a convenience to the reader and are for reference only. The headings do not expand, limit, or define the text of this act.

APPLICABILITY OF STATUTORY CONTINUING RESOLUTION AND HOUSE BILL 966, 2019 REGULAR SESSION
SECTION 3.9.  This act, and any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, collectively supersedes and replaces the provisions of G.S. 143C‑5‑4(b). The appropriations and the authorizations to allocate and spend funds which are set out in this act shall remain in effect until House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, at which time that act shall become effective and shall govern appropriations and expenditures. When the provisions of House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session, covering that fiscal year becomes law, the Director of the Budget shall adjust allotments to give effect to that act from July 1 of the fiscal year.

part iv. effective date
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 31st day of October, 2019.

	s/	 Philip E. Berger
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 Tim Moore
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	_____________________________________
		 Roy Cooper
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2019