Bill Summaries: H140 (2025-2026 Session)

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  • Summary date: Apr 29 2025 - View summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.

    Instead of authorizing the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) to add the Gullah Geechee Greenway/Blueway Heritage Trail (Heritage Trail) in Brunswick County to the State Parks System as a State trail, states that the NCGA authorizes the Heritage Train. Requires the State, instead of DNCR, to support, promote, encourage, and facilitate the establishment of trail segments on State park lands and on lands of other federal, State, local, and private landowners. Makes conforming deletions. Amends the act's long title.


  • Summary date: Feb 17 2025 - View summary

    Includes whereas clauses. Authorizes the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) to add the Gullah Geechee Greenway/Blueway Heritage Trail (Heritage Trail) in Brunswick County to the State Parks System as a State trail. Requires DNCR to support, promote, encourage, and facilitate the establishment of trail segments on State park lands and on lands of other federal, State, local, and private landowners. Specifies that on segments of the Heritage Trail that cross property controlled by agencies or owners other than DNCR's Division of Parks and Recreation, the laws, rules, and policies of those agencies or owners govern the use of the property. Excludes this authorization from the statutory requirement that additions be accompanied by adequate appropriations for land acquisition, development, and operations; however, the State may receive donations of appropriate land and may purchase other needed lands for the Heritage Trail with funds in the Land and Water Fund, the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, and other available funding sources.