FILED SENATE
May 14, 2020
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
S.B. 743
SESSION 2019 PRINCIPAL CLERK
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SENATE BILL DRS15483-MHa-184
Short Title: Expand Fire Grant Fund. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators deViere, Fitch, and Lowe (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO THE NORTH CAROLINA
3 VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT FUND FOR TARGETED RELIEF TO FIRE
4 DEPARTMENTS LOCATED IN ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED AREAS.
5 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
6 SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of
7 Insurance the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2020-2021
8 fiscal year, to be allocated to the Volunteer Fire Department Fund created by G.S. 58-87-1. The
9 Department shall account separately for the funds provided by this act to the Fund.
10 SECTION 2. The procedures and requirements set forth in G.S. 58-87-1 apply to
11 grants made using the funds appropriated by this act, with the following alterations:
12 (1) Grants shall be limited to counties designated as development tier one, as
13 defined in G.S. 143B-437.08, according to the most recent annual ranking.
14 (2) The applicant shall match the grant on the basis of one dollar ($1.00) of
15 non-State funds for each three dollars ($3.00) of grant funds.
16 (3) The maximum grant amount shall be fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
17 SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2020.
*DRS15483-MHa-184*