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