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H273 • 2025

Create/Fund Brushy Mtns. State Natural Area.

Create/Fund Brushy Mtns. State Natural Area.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Eddins, Branson, Dahle, Harrison
Last action
2025-03-05
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

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Create/Fund Brushy Mtns. State Natural Area.

Create/Fund Brushy Mtns.

What This Bill Does

  • Create/Fund Brushy Mtns.
  • State Natural Area.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-05 House

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

  2. 2025-03-05 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-03-04 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Create/Fund Brushy Mtns. State Natural Area.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 273

Short Title: Create/Fund Brushy Mtns. State Natural Area. (Public)
Sponsors: Representative Eddins.
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
March 5, 2025
*H273-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO CREATE AND FUND THE BRUSHY MOUNTAINS STATE NATURAL AREA 2
IN ALEXANDER, CALDWELL, AND WILKES COUNTIES. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. Creation. – The General Assembly authorizes the Department of 5
Natural and Cultural Resources to create Brushy Mountains State Natural Area (BMSNA) in 6
Alexander County, Caldwell County, and Wilkes County and to add BMSNA to the State Parks 7
System, as prov ided in G.S. 143B-135.54(b). The State may receive donations of appropriate 8
land and may purchase other needed lands for BMSNA with existing funds in the NC Land and 9
Water Fund, the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, the federal Land and Water Conservation 10
Fund, and other available sources of funding. 11
SECTION 2. Funding. – There is appropriated from the General Fund to the 12
Department of Natural and Cultural Resources the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars 13
($250,000) in nonrecurring funds and two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in recurring 14
funds for the 2025 -2026 fiscal year to be allocated for initial land acquisition and site 15
development and associated operating costs at BMSNA. 16
SECTION 3. Effective Date. – Section 2 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 17
The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law. 18