GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 361

Short Title:  Motor Fuels Laboratory Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Albertson; Clodfelter, Harris, Kerr, and Warren.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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March 15, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO EARMARK ONE-TIME FUNDS FROM THE MOTOR FUEL INSPECTION TAX PROCEEDS TO CONSTRUCT A NEW MOTOR FUELS LABORATORY IN RALEIGH.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 119-18(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Proceeds. – The proceeds of the inspection tax levied by this section shall be applied first to the costs of administering this Article and Subchapter V of Chapter 105 of the General Statutes.  The Secretary of Revenue shall credit the first four million nine hundred ten thousand nine hundred dollars ($4,910,900) of the remaining proceeds for the 1999-2000 fiscal year to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to be used for construction of a new motor fuels laboratory in Raleigh. The remainder of the proceeds shall be credited on a monthly basis to the Commercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund and the Noncommercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund.  If the amount of revenue in the Noncommercial Fund at the end of a month is at least five million dollars ($5,000,000), one-half of the remainder of the proceeds shall be credited to the Noncommercial Fund and one-half of the remainder of the proceeds shall be credited to the Commercial Fund.  If the amount of revenue in the Noncommercial Fund at the end of a month is less than this threshold amount, all of the remainder of the proceeds shall be credited to the Noncommercial Fund."
Section 2.  The Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services shall use the funds credited to it under this act only for construction of a new motor fuels laboratory in Raleigh.  The funds shall not revert at the end of the 1999-2000 fiscal year but shall remain available to the Department until used for this purpose.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.  Section 1 of this act expires July 1, 2000.