North Carolina SB 496: Funds For Coastal Federation.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 496

Short Title: Funds For Coastal Federation. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Sanderson (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 26, 2025
*S496-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL 2
FEDERATION FOR VARIOUS PUBLIC PURPOSES. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of State 5
Budget and Management the sum of six million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($6,250,000) 6
in nonrecurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to provide a directed grant to the North 7
Carolina Coastal Federation, Inc., to be used as follows: 8
(1) One million dollars ($1,000,000) for construction of an education and event 9
center on Bogue Sound in Carteret County. These funds would be used to 10
match eight million dollars ($8,000,000) in private funds. 11
(2) Five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the Living Shoreline Protection 12
Program. 13
(3) Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for a statewide oyster shell 14
recycling program. 15
SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of State 16
Budget and Management the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) in recurring funds each 17
year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to provide a directed grant to the North Carolina Coastal 18
Federation, Inc., to support a permanent Abandoned and Derelict Vessel Removal Program. 19
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 20