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.