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H232 • 2025

Funds/Short-Line Railroad Disaster Assistance.

Funds/Short-Line Railroad Disaster Assistance.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Pless, Clampitt
Last action
2025-02-27
Official status
Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
2025-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

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Funds/Short-Line Railroad Disaster Assistance.

Funds/Short-Line Railroad Disaster Assistance.

What This Bill Does

  • Funds/Short-Line Railroad Disaster Assistance.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-27 House

    Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-02-27 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-02-26 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Funds/Short-Line Railroad Disaster Assistance.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 232

Short Title: Funds/Short-Line Railroad Disaster Assistance. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Pless and Clampitt (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
February 27, 2025
*H232-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO APPROPRIAT E FUNDS FOR THE REPA IR AND RECONSTRUCTIO N OF 2
SHORT-LINE RAILROADS IMPACTED BY HURRICANE HELENE. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1.(a) The State Controller shall transfer the sum of sixteen million three 5
hundred ninety -two thousand one hundred seventy -six dollars ($16,392,176) in nonrecurring 6
funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year from funds available in the State Emergency Response and 7
Disaster Relief Reserve to the Department of Transportation's Rail Division (Division) for the 8
Freight Rail & Rail Safety Improvement Fund (Rail Fund) established by G.S. 124-5.1, and those 9
funds are appropriated from the Rail Fund for the purposes set forth in subsection (b) of this 10
section. 11
SECTION 1.(b) The Division shall use the funds transferred and appropriated 12
pursuant to this section to provide grants for recovery and repair of the following short -line 13
railroads damaged by Hurricane Helene: 14
(1) Fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000) to the Blue Ridge Southern Railroad, 15
LLC, for line restoration. 16
(2) Two million three hundred ninety -two thousand one hundred seventy -six 17
dollars ($2,392,176) for track rehabilitation, facility repairs, and revenue loss 18
to the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, LLC. 19
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 20