A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the board of governors of the university of north carolina to construct a state‑of‑the‑art herbarium building.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to help construct a state‑of‑the‑art, sustainably‑designed Herbarium building. The University of North Carolina Herbarium boasts a collection of over 700,000 specimens, the largest and most important collection in the southeast, representing over 170 years of botanical work and the basis of our knowledge of the flora of North Carolina and the southeast.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.