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The Ric Flair Act, a bipartisan bill seeking to create a study about the potential of a Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame Museum in North Carolina, was introduced today in The North Carolina Senate, according to WRAL television.
According to the report, Senate Bill 404, the "RIC FLAIR" Act, is titled, "An Act to Remember Iconic Combatants through Fostering Learning Awareness and Interest In Rassling. "
It directs $500,000 to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to study the matter.
State lawmakers would receive a report by the summer of 2026.
North Carolina was synonymous with professional wrestling via Jim Crockett Promotions, which ran the Mid-Atlantic region for generations.
The Museum of the New South in Charlotte has regularlly featured artifacts from the promotion.
There are professional wrestling Hall of Fame Museums housed in both Albany, NY and Waterloo, Iowa currently.
The complete bill reads as follows:
Short Title: RIC FLAIR Act. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Chaudhuri, Britt, and Hise (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: *DRS45215-LGa-20A* 1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 2 AN ACT TO REMEMBER ICONIC COMBATANTS THROUGH FOSTERING LEARNING AWARENESS AND INTEREST IN RASSLING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 6 Natural and Cultural Resources the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in 7 nonrecurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to study the feasibility of establishing a 8 professional wrestling museum in the State. By July 1, 2026, the Department shall report its 9 findings and recommendations to the Joint Legislative 5Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources.
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025
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