According to a press release, House Bill 1012 sets aside $700 million in the Hurricane Helene Relief Fund and appropriates $500 million of that funding for immediate relief. Another $300 million from the North Carolina Department of Transportation's budget will be reallocated to help with recovery needs.

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cut-off of key data from U.S. Department of Defence satellites, something a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration spokesperson called a routine data rotation and replacement.