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Read. Follow. Verify.North Carolina allocates $595 million for rural water, public safety, broadband, and school infrastructure grants
Last action · April 3, 2025: Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action)Sponsors: Ray Jeffers and 32 others
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What This Bill Would Do
North Carolina appropriates $595 million in nonrecurring funds for the 2025-2026 to finance infrastructure, public safety equipment, economic development land acquisition, medical placement, farmland preservation, school construction, broadband expansion, and early childhood programs in rural areas, effective July 1, 2025.
Rural local governments, school districts, law enforcement agencies, and state departments receive hundreds of millions of dollars in targeted state grants for capital projects, equipment upgrades, and service expansion.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
units of local government
Local governments are eligible to apply for water, sewer, and economic development land acquisition grants.
municipal and county sheriff and police departments and fire departments
Law enforcement and fire departments are eligible to receive grant funding for needed equipment.
local school administrative units in rural areas
Rural school districts are eligible for grants supporting new construction and capital improvements.
North Carolina Medical Society Foundation
Receives a directed grant to further the placement of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in underserved areas.
Key Facts
- Appropriates $200,000,000 to the Department of Environmental Quality for water and sewer infrastructure grants to local governments.
- Appropriates $10,000,000 to the Department of Public Safety for equipment grants to police, sheriff, and fire departments.
- Appropriates $20,000,000 to the Department of Commerce for local government land acquisition grants for economic development.
- Appropriates $5,000,000 to the Office of State Budget and Management as a directed grant to the North Carolina Medical Society Foundation for medical provider placements in underserved areas.
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- Appropriates $10,000,000 to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund.
- Appropriates $200,000,000 to the Department of Public Instruction for school construction and capital improvements in rural school administrative units.
- Appropriates $50,000,000 to the Department of Information Technology for supplemental broadband expansion programs.
- Appropriates $100,000,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education, for early learning programs.
- All appropriations are nonrecurring sums from the General Fund for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
- The act becomes effective on July 1, 2025.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
3 actions- Apr 3, 2025HouseRef to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 3, 2025HousePassed 1st Reading
- Apr 1, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Sources
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Analysis Score
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- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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