GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 879

Short Title:  Funds for NC Healthy Start.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Martin of Guilford, Purcell; Dannelly, Forrester, Gulley, Kerr, Kinnaird, Lucas, and Phillips.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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April 13, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA HEALTHY START FOUNDATION.
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 nine hundred fifty thousand dollars ($950,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to the North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation and may be used by the Foundation, as follows:
(1)	$250,000 to support operating expenses of the First Step Campaign;
(2)	$600,000 to support and expand the annual community grants program; and
(3)	$100,000 to focus public education efforts toward North Carolina's minority communities.
Section 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.