A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to kidsenses children's interactive museum.
Whereas, KidSenses Children's Interactive Museum, operated by KidSenses, Inc., and located in downtown Rutherfordton, provides children with the opportunity to develop a rich understanding of themselves and their world through fun, hands‑on learning in the areas of science, art, and culture; and
Whereas, until recently, the programs at the Museum were designed to reach children from infants to age 10; and
Whereas, KidSenses, Inc., is expanding the Museum with an 8,400 square foot addition known as The Factory, which will allow the Museum to offer programs in areas of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to attract older children and to help prepare them for a future STEM-based economy; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to KidSenses, Inc., a nonprofit organization, the sum of one million one hundred thousand dollars ($1,100,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to allow the organization to expand the KidSenses Children's Interactive Museum located in downtown Rutherfordton.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.