GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 159

Short Title:  Adult Home Specialists Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Lucas; Ballance, Ballantine, Carpenter, Carter, Cochrane, Dannelly, Forrester, Garrou, Jordan, Kinnaird, Lee, Metcalf, Phillips, Shaw of Cumberland, and Wellons.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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February 22, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR ADDITIONAL ADULT CARE HOME SPECIALISTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of two million one hundred twenty-four thousand five hundred seventy-one dollars ($2,124,571) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of two million one hundred twenty-four thousand five hundred seventy-one dollars ($2,124,571) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to add 59 social workers in county departments of social services to monitor adult care homes for compliance with licensure standards, to assist facility staff with resolving problems, and to ensure that corrective action occurs and residents are safe.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.