GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
S	1
SENATE BILL 523

 
 
Short Title:	Grassroots Science Museum Funds.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Odom;  Albertson, Allran, Ballantine, Berger, Bingham, Carpenter, Carrington, Carter, Clodfelter, Dalton, Dannelly, Forrester, Garrou, Gulley, Harris, Hartsell, Hoyle, Jordan, Kerr, Kinnaird, Lee, Martin of Guilford, Miller, Moore, Plyler, Purcell, Rand, Rucho, Shaw of Cumberland, Shaw of Guilford, Soles, Weinstein, and Wellons.	
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.	
March 19, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A GRASSROOTS SCIENCE MuSeUM PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCEs TO IMPRoVE STATE PROGRAMS IN SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sum of three million four hundred twenty thousand dollars ($3,420,000) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year for full funding of the Grassroots Science Museum Collaborative.
The Grassroots Science Museum Collaborative is administered by the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences and provides a forum to strengthen science and technology centers in the State. Each Grassroots Science Museum shall receive fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in funding and an additional percentage based on the operating budget of the museum.
The participating museums with grassroots science programs are located in the cities of Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, Gastonia, Greensboro, Hickory, Rocky Mount, Oxford, Statesville, Wilson, Winston‑Salem, Wilmington, and the Towns of Aurora and Ocean Isle.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the resources to provide equal base funding of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year to the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.