A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of justice to provide the North Carolina State Crime Lab the funds necessary to address the shortfall in lab RECEIPTS, TO fund CURRENTLY unfunded mandates, and to provide for scientific equipment to be replaced on a five‑year replacement schedule, as recommended by the north carolina courts commission.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Justice the sum of four million seven hundred forty‑seven thousand four hundred and sixty dollars ($4,747,460) in recurring funds for the 2017‑2018 and 2018‑2019 fiscal years to the North Carolina Crime Laboratory to be allocated as follows: (i) four hundred forty‑seven thousand four hundred and sixty dollars ($447,460) to be allocated to the base budget to make up for a shortfall in lab receipts; (ii) one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) to be allocated to fund currently unfunded mandates; and (iii) two million six hundred thousand dollars ($2,600,000) to be allocated for scientific equipment on a five‑year replacement schedule.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2017.