GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 519*

Short Title:  North Carolina Aquariums Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Perdue; and Ballantine.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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March 26, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR EXPANSION OF THE THREE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUMS.
Whereas, the North Carolina Aquariums serve over 750,000 visitors and 75,000 school students each year; and
Whereas, the North Carolina Aquariums are an important part of the tourism economy of the State; and
Whereas, the planned expansions will double the educational and exhibit spaces, thereby enhancing their instructional and economic impacts; and
Whereas, the Aquariums are raising $3,000,000 for exhibits from private sources across the State; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of thirty-four million five hundred sixty-seven thousand dollars ($34,567,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year for construction and two million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($2,750,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year in operating reserves needed for the expansion of the North Carolina Aquariums.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.