AN ACT to appropriate additional funds to north carolina agricultural and technical state university to provide funds to support agricultural research and cooperative extension program activities and to support its doctoral programs.

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 three million dollars ($3,000,000) in additional recurring funds for the 2021‑2022 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T State University) 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. The required minimum match for eligibility under the program is one dollar ($1.00) in nonfederal funds, including those made available by State appropriation, for every one dollar ($1.00) in federal funds for agricultural research and extension activities approved in the plan of work submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. It is also the intent of the General Assembly to appropriate additional State funds as necessary to meet at least a minimum match of one dollar ($1.00) in nonfederal funds for every one dollar ($1.00) in available federal funds for this program in subsequent fiscal years to ensure compliance with federal law.

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of seven million five hundred thousand dollars ($7,500,000) in additional recurring funds for the 2021‑2022 fiscal year to be allocated to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to support its doctoral programs. The funds shall be used to support new faculty and graduate student services for the doctoral programs, including computer science, various engineering fields, energy and environmental systems, education, agriculture, and rehabilitation counseling.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2021.