GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

SESSION LAW 2006-2

HOUSE BILL 1868

AN ACT to provide emergency funding for the department of correction.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) for the 2005-2006 fiscal year for expenses related to unanticipated utility and health care costs. Funds that are unexpended and unencumbered as of the end of the 2005-2006 fiscal year shall revert to the General Fund.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18^th day of May, 2006.

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved 2:00 p.m. this 20^th day of May, 2006