GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2019

 

SESSION LAW 2020-26

HOUSE BILL 472

 

 

AN ACT to appropriate ADDITIONAL funds to north carolina state university to provide a match for federal funds to support the development of innovative manufacturing processes for biopharmaceutical products; to appropriate additional funds to north carolina agricultural and technical state university to provide a match for federal funds to support agricultural research and cooperative extension program activities; and to permit north carolina AGRICULTURAL and technical state UNIVERSITY to sell dairy products at UNIVERSITY‑owned facilities to support the AGRICULTURAL research program at the university.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.(a)  Transfer for NC State University Funds. – By August 15, 2020, the Department of Public Instruction shall transfer the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) in nonrecurring funds from the cash balance in the School Bus Replacement Fund (Budget Code: 73510; Fund Code: 7200) to NC State University – Academic Affairs (Budget Code: 16030).

SECTION 1.(b)  Appropriation for the NC State University Match. – The funds transferred in subsection (a) of this section are appropriated to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina State University (NC State University) to be used for NC State University's participation in a collaborative effort to accelerate the development of innovative manufacturing processes for biopharmaceutical products. These funds shall support the Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center at NC State University and shall serve as matching funds for a federal grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

SECTION 2.(a)  Transfer for NC A&T State University Funds. – By August 15, 2020, the Department of Public Instruction shall transfer the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) in nonrecurring funds from the cash balance in the School Bus Replacement Fund (Budget Code: 73510; Fund Code: 7200) to NC A&T University (Budget Code: 16070).

SECTION 2.(b)  Appropriation for the NC A&T State University Match. – The funds transferred in subsection (a) of this section are appropriated to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T State University) to be used to support its agricultural research and cooperative extension activities by matching federal funds awarded to NC A&T State University as a land‑grant university pursuant to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977, as amended, 7 U.S.C. § 3221, et seq.

SECTION 3.  Exemption for Sale of NC A&T Dairy Products. – G.S. 66‑58(c) reads as rewritten:

"(c)      The provisions of subsection (a) shall not prohibit:

(1)        The sale of products of experiment stations or test farms.

(1a)      The sale of products raised or produced incident to the operation of a community college or college viticulture/enology program as authorized by G.S. 18B‑1114.4 or the operation of a community college or college brewing, distillation, or fermentation program as authorized by G.S. 18B‑1114.6.

(1b)      The sale by North Carolina State University at University‑owned facilities of dairy products, including ice cream, cheeses, milk‑based beverages, and the by‑products of heavy cream, produced by the Dairy and Process Applications Laboratory, so long as any profits are used to support the Department of Food Science and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at North Carolina State University.

(1c)      The sale by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T State University) at University‑owned facilities of dairy products, including ice cream, cheeses, milk‑based beverages, and the by‑products of heavy cream, produced by the University Farm at NC A&T State University, so long as any profits are used to support the Agricultural Research Program and the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at NC A&T State University.

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SECTION 4.  State Budget Act Applies. – The provisions of the State Budget Act, Chapter 143C of the General Statutes, are reenacted and shall remain in full force and effect and are incorporated in this act by reference.

SECTION 5.  Additional Limitations and Directions. – Except where expressly repealed or amended by this act, the provisions of any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session of the General Assembly expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act shall remain in effect.

SECTION 6.  Effective Date. – This act becomes effective July 1, 2020.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of June, 2020.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Philip E. Berger

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Tim Moore

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Roy Cooper

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 2:23 p.m. this 19th day of June, 2020