GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 581

Short Title:  Sanitation Program Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Hoyle.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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March 29, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO IMPROVE THE SANITATION PROGRAM FOR FOOD AND LODGING ESTABLISHMENTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources the sum of two million nine hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred sixteen dollars ($2,914,916) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of one million four hundred fourteen thousand nine hundred sixteen dollars ($1,414,916) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to improve the standards and consistency of the Department's Food, Lodging, and Institutional Sanitation Program.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$1,414,916 to fund and support the following positions: one programming analyst III, one computing consultant, six regional environmental health specialists, three environmental engineers, two food safety educators, one nurse consultant, one environmental health programs staff assistant, two processing assistants, one administrative assistant, and four office assistants.
(2)	$1,500,000 for aid to counties to support continuing education and training of persons who conduct food and lodging inspections for county departments of health.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.