RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bill into law:

Senate Bill 56: Tryon Palace - Capital Project

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2021

SENATE BILL 56 RATIFIED BILL *S56-v-2*

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE A CAPITAL PROJECT USING NON-GENERAL FUND REVENUES TO BE CONSTRUCTED AT TRYON PALACE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1. The General Assembly authorizes the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to fund the construction of the new Garden Cottage capital project at Tryon Palace. The Department may use up to six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) for the capital project from receipts or other non-General Fund and non-State Capital and Infrastructure Fund sources available to the Department.

SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of April, 2021.

s/ Philip E. Berger President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/ Tim Moore Speaker of the House of Representatives