Bill Text: NC H378 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Amd. Criteria/Certain Ag. Cost-Share Pgms
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-22 - Re-ref Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources [H378 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2015-H378-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
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HOUSE BILL 378
Committee Substitute Favorable 4/21/15
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Short Title: Amd. Criteria/Certain Ag. Cost‑Share Pgms. |
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March 30, 2015
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide alternate forms of documentation for participation in certain Agricultural Cost‑Share programs.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 106‑850(b)(10) reads as rewritten:
"(10) To be eligible for cost share funds under this
program, each applicant must establish that he or she is engaged in farming
by providing any of the following to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission
with his or her application:
a. A copy of the farm owner's or operator's
federal tax Schedule F (Form 1040) or an equivalent form for the most recent
tax year showing the owner's or operator's profit or loss from farming.
b. A copy of the farm's agricultural
exemption certificate issued to the farm owner or operator by the Department of
Revenue.
c. For forestland actively engaged in the
commercial growing of trees under a sound management program as defined in G.S. 105‑277.2(6),
a copy of the sound forest management plan described in G.S. 105‑277.3(g).the
applicant meets the definition of a bona fide farm as described by G.S. 153A‑340(b)(2)."
SECTION 2. G.S. 139‑60(c1) reads as rewritten:
"(c1) To be eligible for assistance under this
program, each applicant must establish that he or she is engaged in farming
by providing to the Soil and Water Conservation Commission with his or her
application:
(1) A copy of the farm owner's or operator's
federal tax Schedule F (Form 1040) or an equivalent form for the most recent
tax year showing the owner's or operator's profit or loss from farming.
(2) A copy of the farm's agricultural
exemption certificate issued to the farm owner or operator by the Department of
Revenue.
(3) For forestland actively engaged in the
commercial growing of trees under a sound management program as defined in G.S. 105‑277.2(6),
a copy of the sound forest management plan described in G.S. 105‑277.3(g).the
applicant meets the definition of a bona fide farm as described by G.S. 153A‑340(b)(2)."
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to applications submitted or pending on or after that date.
