A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT providing that funds appropriated for the construction of public FACILITIES at the north carolina veterans MEMORIAL pavilion shall not revert to the general fund until june 30, 2020, providing that certain regional water and sewer funding shall not revert until june 30, 2021, and REDIRECTING CERTAIN STORM RESILIENCE FUNDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any provision of S.L. 2017‑57, or of the Committee Report described in Section 39.2 of that act to the contrary, the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year appropriated in that act to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs for the construction of public facilities at the North Carolina Veterans Memorial Pavilion in Broadway, North Carolina, shall not revert on June 30, 2019, as required by Section 6.13(c) of that act, but shall remain available for expenditure until June 30, 2020.
SECTION 2.  Section 14.20A of S.L. 2016‑94, as amended by Section 1 of S.L. 2017‑17, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 14.20A.(b)  Notwithstanding G.S. 143C‑6‑23(f1)(1) and G.S. 143C‑1‑2, funds allocated by this section shall be held in reserve by the Office of State Budget and Management and the allocations to each County shall be released when the County and one or more of the municipalities specified in subsection (a) of this section reach agreement on the funds allocated to that County by this section through interlocal agreements or the formation of regional water and sewer authorities or a combination of interlocal agreements and regional water and sewer authorities. Funds not spent or encumbered by June 30, 2021, shall be returned by the local governments or regional water and sewer authority to the Office of State Budget and Management and revert to the General Fund."
SECTION 3.  Section 13.9 of S.L. 2018‑5, as amended by Section 2.9 of S.L. 2018‑138, reads as rewritten:
"DEQ GRANTS‑IN‑AID
"SECTION 13.9.(a)  Of the funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Resources, the following sums are allocated to the indicated recipients for the indicated storm resiliency purposes:
(1)	Three million four hundred thousand dollars ($3,400,000) to provide a grant‑in‑aid to Resource Institute, Inc., for the purpose of working with local governments on Topsail Island and engineering firms to develop, plan, or implement projects in or benefitting the Towns of Surf City and Topsail Beach intended to mitigate the impacts of future hurricanes on those local governments and their adjoining coastlines.
(2)	One million six hundred thousand dollars ($1,600,000) to the Town of North Topsail Beach for hurricane recovery projects in or benefitting the Town and its adjoining coastline.
"SECTION 13.9.(b)  On or before October 1, 2019, the recipients of allocations under this section shall submit a report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources and the Fiscal Research Division. The report shall contain at least all of the following:
(1)	A list of participating local governments and engineering firms and other partners in projects funded under this section.
(2)	A list of projects funded on Topsail Island, including a summary of the costs and the scope of the project.
(3)	A summary of the emerging techniques developed and implemented as a result of the efforts of the collaboration between local governments, engineering firms, and Resource Institute, Inc.
(4)	Documentation of the impact on the resilience of beach nourishment projects and the number of beach nourishment projects assisted."
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective June 30, 2019.