GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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SENATE BILL 637

Short Title:        Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies Funds.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Stevens;  Garrou, Malone, and Swindell.
Referred to:	Finance.

March 18, 2009

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to continue the fee of seventy‑five dollars required to restore a drivers license for impaired driving, to direct that twenty‑five dollars of that fee continue to be deposited into the general fund with the intent that five hundred thousand dollars of the general fund portion be appropriated annually for operating expenses of the bowles center for alcohol studies at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, and to appropriate funds for the bowles center for alcohol studies for the 2009‑2011 biennium.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑7(i1) reads as rewritten:

"(i1)      Restoration Fee. – Any person whose drivers license has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, other than G.S. 20‑17(2), G.S. 20‑17(a)(2) shall pay a restoration fee of fifty dollars ($50.00). A person whose drivers license has been revoked under G.S. 20‑17(2) G.S. 20‑17(a)(2) shall pay a restoration fee of seventy‑five dollars ($75.00) until the end of the fiscal year in which the cumulative total amount of fees deposited under this subsection in the General Fund exceeds ten million dollars ($10,000,000), and shall pay a restoration fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) thereafter. seventy‑five dollars ($75.00). The fee shall be paid to the Division prior to the issuance to such person of a new drivers license or the restoration of the drivers license. The restoration fee shall be paid to the Division in addition to any and all fees which may be provided by law. This restoration fee shall not be required from any licensee whose license was revoked or voluntarily surrendered for medical or health reasons whether or not a medical evaluation was conducted pursuant to this Chapter. The fifty‑dollar ($50.00) fee, and the first fifty dollars ($50.00) of the seventy‑five‑dollar ($75.00) fee, shall be deposited in the Highway Fund. The remaining twenty‑five dollars ($25.00) of the seventy‑five‑dollar ($75.00) fee shall be deposited in the General Fund of the State. The Office of State Budget and Management shall certify to the Department of Transportation and the General Assembly when the cumulative total amount of fees deposited in the General Fund under this subsection exceeds ten million dollars ($10,000,000), and shall annually report to the General Assembly the amount of fees deposited in the General Fund under this subsection.

It is the intent of the General Assembly to annually appropriate from the funds deposited in the General Fund under this subsection the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina to be used for the operating expenses of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies Endowment at The the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but not to exceed this cumulative total of ten million dollars ($10,000,000).Hill."

SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year and the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year to be used for the operating expenses of the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.