AN ACT to increase local and state funds for management and disposal of scrap tires and the remediation of nuisance scrap tire sites.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 105‑187.19(b) reads as rewritten:

(b)      Each quarter, the Secretary shall credit thirty percent (30%) twenty percent (20%) of the net tax proceeds to the General Fund. The Secretary shall distribute the remaining seventy percent (70%) eighty percent (80%) of the net tax proceeds among the counties on a per capita basis according to the most recent annual population estimates certified to the Secretary by the State Budget Officer.

SECTION 2.  The sum of four hundred twenty thousand dollars ($420,000) in recurring funds for the 2021‑2022 fiscal year is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality to be allocated to the Scrap Tire Disposal Account and used for the purposes set forth in G.S. 130A‑309.64(d).

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