GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 141

Short Title:  AIDS Prevention Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Wright; Luebke and Hunter.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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February 25, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO INCREASE EFFORTS FOR THE PREVENTION OF AIDS/HIV.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year for community-based intervention efforts to combat the AIDS/HIV epidemic.  Funds appropriated under this section shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$300,000 each fiscal year to increase, by over 600,000 persons, the capacity of existing community-based organizations to provide outreach services to individuals at risk for HIV/AIDS;
(2)	$300,000 each fiscal year to increase the capacity of local health departments in counties where increased community-based organization efforts occur for the examination and treatment of persons referred by the community-based organizations and to establish alternate counseling and testing sites that are based either at the local health department or at the community-based organization; and
(3)	$400,000 each fiscal year to provide funding for the development of new community-based organizations to provide outreach and referral services for persons at risk for HIV/AIDS.  The primary focus of no fewer than one-half of the community-based organizations developed with funds allocated by this subdivision shall be services to racial and ethnic minority populations across the State.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.