AN ACT to increase the number of state troopers assigned to mecklenburg county and to appropriate funds.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the State Highway Patrol the sum of eight hundred twenty‑one thousand eighty‑nine dollars ($821,089) in recurring funds for each year of the 2021‑2023 fiscal biennium, and six hundred sixty thousand dollars ($660,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2021‑2022 fiscal year, to be used to fund 12 full‑time State Trooper positions.

SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding G.S. 20‑192 and any rules and regulations created pursuant to that statute, the State Trooper positions funded in this act shall result in an increase of at least 12 State Troopers assigned to State Highway Patrol District H5 of Troop H.

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