A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate additional funds to north carolina agricultural and technical state university to provide a minimum match for federal funds to support agricultural research and cooperative extension program activities.
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 additional recurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T State University) to support its agricultural research and cooperative extension activities by matching federal funds awarded to NC A&T State University as a land‑grant university pursuant to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended, 7 U.S.C. § 3221, et seq. The required minimum match for eligibility under the program is one dollar ($1.00) in nonfederal funds, including those made available by State appropriation, for every one dollar ($1.00) in federal funds for agricultural research and extension activities approved in the plan of work submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. Without the minimum matching State funds appropriated pursuant to this act, NC A&T State University may lose millions of dollars in federal funds for its research and extension activities, since it is currently receiving those funds under a temporary waiver for inability to meet the match requirement. It is also the intent of the General Assembly to appropriate additional State funds as necessary to meet the minimum match for available federal funds for this program in subsequent fiscal years to ensure compliance with federal law.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.