GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
S	1
SENATE BILL 704
     

 
Short Title:	NC Biotechnology Ctr. Funds.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Weinstein;  Horton, Metcalf, and Swindell.	
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.	
March 27, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the north carolina biotechnology center.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce for the North Carolina Biotechnology Center the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year and the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year for technical workforce training, infrastructure development, and research and development in commercialization of genomics and bioinformatics for agriculture, forestry, and recruitment of biopharmaceutical manufacturing companies.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.