GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 38*

Short Title:  Funds for Adult Day Care.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Carpenter, Cochrane, Dannelly, Martin of Pitt, Purcell; and Perdue.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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February 4, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE STATE ADULT DAY CARE PROGRAM.
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 Aging, the sum of three hundred fifty-six thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($356,250) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of three hundred fifty-six thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($356,250) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year for the State Adult Day Care Program.  These funds shall be allocated for the following purposes:
(1)	To provide funds for start-up grants to establish 10 new adult day care programs in the 1999-2000 fiscal year and 10 new adult day care programs in the 2000-2001 fiscal year in the 49 counties currently without adult day care programs; and
(2)	To provide funds to support the conversion of five adult day care programs into adult day health programs in the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the conversion of five adult day care programs into adult day health programs in the 2000-2001 fiscal year.
(3)	Of the funds appropriated in this section, the sum of eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) in each fiscal year shall be used to hire independent consultants to provide specialized technical assistance to adult day care programs.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.