Includes whereas clauses about agriculture.

Appropriates $250,000 from the General Fund to North Carolina State University for the 2014-15 fiscal year in order to develop a formal proposal and economic needs assessment for the establishment of a public/private partnership which is to be known as the “Plant Sciences Research and Innovation Initiative.”

North Carolina State University must submit a copy of the proposal and report to the Agriculture and Forestry Awareness Study Commission detailing the results of the economic needs assessment by January 1, 2015.