A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for North Carolina state University's innovation in manufacturing BIOPHARMACEUTICALS COLLABORATIVE effort.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) in recurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina State University (NCSU) to support the Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center at NCSU for a collaborative effort to accelerate the development of innovative manufacturing processes for biopharmaceutical products. By making the funds allocated to NCSU in this act recurring, it is the intent of the General Assembly (i) to provide funding of two million dollars ($2,000,000) per year for three years in order to provide a total of six million dollars ($6,000,000) in State funds that shall be used as a match for a federal grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and (ii) that thereafter no further funds shall be appropriated for this purpose. Accordingly, the Office of State Budget and Management shall remove this two million dollar ($2,000,000) annual appropriation from the University of North Carolina base budget once this funding pledge has been fulfilled.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.