A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to fund a seventh state hazardous materials team, as recommended by the joint select committee on emergency preparedness and disaster management recovery.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 166A‑22(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The Secretary shall adopt rules establishing a regional response program for hazardous materials emergencies and terrorist incidents, to be administered by the Division of Emergency Management. To the extent possible, the regional response program shall be coordinated with other emergency planning activities of the State. The regional response program shall include at least seven hazmat teams located strategically across the State that are available to provide regional response to hazardous materials or terrorist incidents requiring technician‑level entry capability and 24‑hour dispatch and communications capability at the Division of Emergency Management Operations Center. The rules for the program shall include:
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SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety the sum of one hundred fifteen thousand dollars ($115,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year to support a seventh hazmat team.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.