GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2025

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SENATE BILL 496

Short Title:      Funds For Coastal Federation.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senator Sanderson (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to:	Rules and Operations of the Senate

March 26, 2025

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds to the north carolina coastal federation for various public purposes.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of State Budget and Management the sum of six million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($6,250,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2025‑2026 fiscal year to provide a directed grant to the North Carolina Coastal Federation, Inc., to be used as follows:

(1)        One million dollars ($1,000,000) for construction of an education and event center on Bogue Sound in Carteret County. These funds would be used to match eight million dollars ($8,000,000) in private funds.

(2)        Five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the Living Shoreline Protection Program.

(3)        Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for a statewide oyster shell recycling program.

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of State Budget and Management the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) in recurring funds each year of the 2025‑2027 fiscal biennium to provide a directed grant to the North Carolina Coastal Federation, Inc., to support a permanent Abandoned and Derelict Vessel Removal Program.

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