Bill Text: NC S457 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Veterans' Cemetery in Goldsboro/Funds

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-27 - Ref To Com On Appropriations/Base Budget [S457 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2013-S457-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2013

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SENATE BILL 457

 

 

Short Title:        State Veterans' Cemetery in Goldsboro/Funds.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Pate and D. Davis (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.

March 27, 2013

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds for a state veterans' cemetery in goldsboro.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 65‑41 reads as rewritten:

"§ 65‑41.  Land acquisition.

The State may accept land for the establishment of not more than three four veterans cemeteries."

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Veterans Affairs of the Department of Administration the sum of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) for the 2013‑2014 fiscal year to pay for environmental, architectural, and engineering costs associated with constructing a State Veterans' Cemetery in Goldsboro.

SECTION 3.  The State shall establish, own, operate, maintain, expand, and improve a State Veterans' Cemetery in Goldsboro in accordance with 38 C.F.R. Part 39 unless subdivisions (1) or (2) of Section 4 of this act are true.

SECTION 4.  Any unspent and unencumbered funds appropriated in Section 1 of this act shall revert to the General Fund three years after the effective date of this act if on that date any of the following are true:

(1)        The State has not received federal grant funds in an amount that, when added to the funds appropriated in Section 1 of this act, is sufficient to pay for the cost of completing the State Veterans' Cemetery authorized in that section.

(2)        Land in Wayne County sufficient in size and quality to build the State Veterans' Cemetery described in Section 1 of this act has not been conveyed to the State by the County or any other party.

(3)        Any of the funds are not required to complete the State Veterans' Cemetery.

SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2013.