GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2003

 

 

SESSION LAW 2004-184

SENATE BILL 3

 

 

AN ACT to provide funding for the NC Motorsports testing and research complex AND TO ADJUST THE US 17 INTRASTATE SYSTEM PROJECT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  If House Bill 1414, 2004 Regular Session, becomes law, then Section 2.2(a) of House Bill 1414 is amended by rewriting the entry in the chart for:

(1)       Credit to Repairs and Renovations Reserve Account to read:

"Credit to Repairs and Renovations

Reserve Account                                                                (76,797,361)";

(2)       Beginning Unreserved Credit Balance FY 2004-2005 to read:

            "Beginning Unreserved Credit Balance FY

2004-2005                                                                        273,200,829";

(3)       Total General Fund Availability to read:

"Total General Fund Availability                                15,925,812,166";

(4)       Revised General Fund Availability for 2004-2005 Fiscal Year to read:

"Revised General Fund Availability for

2004-2005 Fiscal Year                                               15,918,359,528";

and

(5)       Less: Total General Fund Appropriations for 2004-2005 Fiscal Year to read:

            "Less: Total General Fund Appropriations

for 2004-2005 Fiscal Year                                       (15,918,359,528)".

SECTION 2.  If House Bill 1414, 2004 Regular Session, becomes law, then Section 2.2(f) of S.L. 2003-284, as rewritten by Section 2.2.(b) of House Bill 1414, reads as rewritten:

"SECTION 2.2.(f)  Notwithstanding G.S. 143-15.2 and G.S. 143-15.3A, the State Controller shall transfer seventy-eight million seven hundred ninety-seven thousand three hundred sixty-one dollars ($78,797,361) seventy-six million seven hundred ninety-seven thousand three hundred sixty-one dollars ($76,797,361) from the unreserved credit balance to the Repairs and Renovations Reserve Account on June 30, 2004. This subsection becomes effective June 30, 2004."

SECTION 3.  If House Bill 1414, 2004 Regular Session, becomes law, then Section 32.1 of House Bill 1414 reads as rewritten:

"SECTION 32.1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund for the 2004-2005 fiscal year the following amount for capital improvements:

 

Capital Improvements - General Fund  2004-2005

           

Department of Commerce - State Ports Authority                                                                   

      Wilmington Port Replace Crane Rail                                                                   2,000,000

      Radio Island Development and Improvements                                                     2,000,000

 

Department of Environment and Natural Resources                                                                 

      Water Resources Development Projects                                                          26,492,000

 

North Carolina Museum of Art                                                                                                    

      Expansion Planning Funds                                                                                     2,200,000

 

University of North Carolina System                                                                                          

      Center for Design Innovation                                                                                2,000,000

      Winston-Salem State University - Dept Life Sciences                                      2,000,000

      UNC-Greensboro and NC A&T Millennium Campus                                         4,000,000

      NC Motor Sports Testing and Research Complex                            2,000,0004,000,000

      UNC-Wilmington - School of Nursing                                                                  500,000

 

TOTAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS - GENERAL

FUND                                                                                                     43,192,00045,192,000"

SECTION 4.  G.S. 136-179 reads as rewritten:

"§ 136-179.  Projects of Intrastate System funded from Trust Fund.

Funds allocated from the Trust Fund for the Intrastate System may be used only for the following projects of the Intrastate System:

Route                        Improvements                                    Affected Counties

US-17                       Complete 4-laning from                   Camden, Pasquotank,

Virginia Line to South                      Perquimans, Chowan,

Carolina Line (including                   Bertie, Martin,

Washington, New Bern,                    Beaufort, Craven,

Hampstead from Military                 Jones, Onslow

Cutoff Road in New                          Pender, New Hanover

Hanover County to US 17                Brunswick

north of Hampstead,

and Jacksonville                               

Bypasses)

…"

SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of July, 2004.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Richard T. Morgan

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 11:48 a.m. this 11th day of August, 2004