AN ACT to bring back the prison inmate litter crews program to effect litter pickup on state highways and roads and to appropriate funds.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Of the funds available to the Department of Transportation, the Department of Transportation shall transfer nine million forty thousand dollars ($9,040,000) in recurring funds in each year of the 2021‑2023 fiscal biennium to the Department of Public Safety, Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice, to implement the Inmate Litter Crews Program authorized by Section 3 of this act. The Department of Public Safety may hire up to 183 full‑time equivalent positions in order to implement the Inmate Litter Crews Program. To the extent the funds transferred in this section are deemed unappropriated, the funds are hereby appropriated for the purpose set forth in Section 3 of this act.

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety five hundred ten thousand six hundred seventy‑nine dollars ($510,679) in recurring funds in each year of the 2021‑2023 fiscal biennium to be used to implement the Inmate Litter Crews Program authorized by Section 3 of this act.

SECTION 3.  The Department of Public Safety, Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice, shall implement a program similar to the former Inmate Litter Crews Program to assist in picking up trash throughout the State of North Carolina.

SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2021.