A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that grants awarded from the clean water management trust fund for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year shall be funded before awarding new grants in the 2009‑2010 fiscal year.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated to the Clean Water Management Trust Fund for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year pursuant to G.S. 113A‑253.1 and the Current Operations Appropriations Act for the 2009‑2011 fiscal biennium shall first be used to pay any grants awarded from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year that were not paid because of expenditure reductions imposed by the Governor for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  No new grants shall be awarded from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year until the grants awarded in the 2008‑2009 fiscal year have been fully funded.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.