AN ACT to appropriate funds for an applied center for advanced manufacturing for vance‑granville community college.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community Colleges System Office the sum of eleven million five hundred thousand dollars ($11,500,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2023‑2024 fiscal year to be allocated to Vance‑Granville Community College to build a new applied center for advanced manufacturing. The center would (i) support industry training needs in the areas of industrial maintenance, mechatronics, electronics, welding, and fabrication, (ii) serve as an advanced manufacturing company recruitment benefit, and (iii) support collaborative high school and college career and technical education partnerships.

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2023.