GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2025

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HOUSE BILL 285

Short Title:      Funds for Laurinburg-Maxton Airport.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representative G. Pierce. For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to:	Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

March 6, 2025

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDs FOR Laurinburg‑Maxton Airport.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Transportation, Division of Aviation, the sum of fifty‑two million five hundred thousand dollars ($52,500,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2025‑2026 fiscal year to be allocated to Southeast Regional Airport Authority to be used according to the following schedule:

Runway 5/23 Extension                            $28,000,000

Airport Capital Projects                            $15,000,000

Water & Sewer Capital Projects               $9,500,000

SECTION 2. The Division shall submit a quarterly report on the use of funds to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee and the Fiscal Research Division.

SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025.