GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 692

Short Title:  Shakespeare Festival Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Hagan; and Martin of Guilford.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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April 1, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE NORTH CAROLINA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, a nonprofit corporation, the sum of two hundred sixty thousand dollars ($260,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year to support the Festival, which entertains and educates adults and students throughout North Carolina with high quality professional productions of classic theatre, focusing on the works of Shakespeare.  The Festival reaches more than 68,000 people, including more than 40,000 students, each year.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.