A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide funds for the planning and CONSTRUCTION of a new brody school of medicine at east carolina university.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is transferred from the General Fund to the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year.
SECTION 1.(b)  There is appropriated from the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to provide funds for the planning of a new Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.
SECTION 2.(a)  It is the intent of the General Assembly to transfer from the General Fund to the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund the sum of thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) for the 2021‑2022 fiscal year.
SECTION 2.(b)  It is the intent of the General Assembly to appropriate from the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) for the 2021‑2022 fiscal year to provide funds for the construction of a new Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The total amount authorized for the project is two hundred fifteen million dollars ($215,000,000).
SECTION 3.  The allocation of funds as provided by this act for the project for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years shall be conditioned upon the existence of and compliance with an affiliation agreement between The University of North Carolina or East Carolina University and the primary affiliated teaching hospital for the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine. The affiliation agreement shall require that at least forty‑five percent (45%) of the members of the Board of Trustees of the primary affiliated teaching hospital be appointed by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina.
SECTION 4.  If House Bill 966, 2019 Regular Session, becomes law, and any provision of that act or a provision of the Committee Report described in Section 42.2 of that act conflicts with this act, this act shall control.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2020.