A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the North Carolina State University College of Engineering.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year and the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina State University for the College of Engineering to add faculty in interdisciplinary areas that respond to State and national needs.  A portion of the funds may be used to match external grants for Electric Vehicle Research in the NCSU Advanced Transportation Energy Center.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.