GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1299*

Short Title:  Office of the State Controller Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Church, Allen, Tallent; and Crawford.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 20, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE OFFICE OF THE STATE CONTROLLER.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of the State Controller, the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and three million dollars ($3,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to cover expenditures for the following:
(1)	Functional and technical contractual services to continue efforts related to the implementation of best business practices associated with accounts receivable processing and bad debt collection required by G.S. 147-86.22(a).
(2)	Functional and technical contractual services and related software to develop and implement electronic commerce business initiatives.
Section 2.  Funding for these items shall be supported from receipts generated by the collection of inadvertent overpayments by State agencies to vendors as a result of pricing errors, neglected rebates and discounts, miscalculated freight charges, unclaimed refunds, erroneously paid excise taxes, and related errors as required by G.S. 147-86.22(c).  Funds shall be transferred from the special reserve account to the Office of the State Controller in the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and three million dollars ($3,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.