H 601

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
  SESSION 2025
 H  1
  HOUSE BILL 601
 Short Title:   Funds for Facilities of DAV Organizations.  (Public)
 Sponsors:      Representatives Roberson, Price, R. Pierce, and Jeffers (Primary Sponsors).
  For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
 Referred to:   Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
  April 1, 2025
1A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO REPAIR AND ENHANCE DISABLED
3     AMERICAN VETERANS (DAV) ORGANIZATION FACILITIES.
4 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
5SECTION 1.(a) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of
6 Military and Veterans Affairs the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) in recurring funds for
7 each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to establish and administer a grant program to eligible
8 nonprofit Disabled American Veterans (DAV) chapters to (i) renovate and expand their facilities
9 and (ii) provide additional resources to disabled veterans. Each chapter may be awarded only one
10 grant in each fiscal year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium and shall not exceed one million dollars
11 ($1,000,000).
12SECTION 1.(b) In awarding grants under this section, the Department shall, to the
13 extent possible, select applicants from all parts of the State. Grants shall be made as soon as
14 practicable. If, in any fiscal year, the Department has not disbursed all of the grant funds
15 appropriated for the grant program as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the Department
16 shall allow applicants who have not received grant funds in that fiscal year to apply for a grant.
17 Any funds appropriated for the grant program authorized by subsection (a) of this section that
18 are unencumbered at the end of each fiscal year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium shall not revert
19 to the General Fund but shall remain available for providing grants as authorized by this section.
20SECTION 1.(c) Report. – By July 1, 2026, and each July of every even-numbered
21 year, the Department shall submit a written report on the grants allocated in subsection (a) of this
22 section to the Senate Appropriations Committee on General Government and Information
23 Technology, the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on General Government,
24 and the Fiscal Research Division, which shall include all of the following:
25(1)     The total number of grants awarded, by county.
26(2)     The name of each eligible DAV chapter to which a grant was awarded, by
27county.
28(3)     The amount of the grant awarded to each DAV chapter.
29SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025.
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