A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to assist counties with drainage ditch cleanup.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The sum of twelve million dollars ($12,000,000) is transferred from the Hurricane Florence Disaster Recovery Reserve to the Hurricane Florence Disaster Recovery Fund and appropriated on a nonrecurring basis for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to the Department of Public Safety, Office of Recovery and Resiliency. These funds shall be allocated equally to each of the following counties to assist with drainage ditch cleanup: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, Jones, Lenoir, Onslow, Pender, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, and Wayne. Unexpended funds shall revert to the Hurricane Florence Disaster Recovery Fund on June 30, 2020.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.