GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 71

Short Title:  Ag. Ext. Caregiver/Vol. Training Funds.  	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Wiser; Bowman and Warner.
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Referred to:  Human Resources.
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January 24, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE TRAINING OF CAREGIVERS AND OF VOLUNTEER ADULT SITTERS AND INFORMATION PROVIDERS FOR THE ELDERLY IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Home Economics Department, North Carolina State University, the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1989-90 fiscal year and the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1990-91 fiscal year, to continue, in cooperation with the North Carolina Aging Network, the development and expansion of the training of caregivers and of volunteer adult sitters and information providers for the elderly statewide.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
1989-90	To provide materials for eight county teams to use in training 10 caregivers each and to prepare training packets and training tapes for other counties;
1990-91	To train agents from 30 additional counties to conduct training of family caregivers and to disseminate training packets and make training tapes available to the remaining 62 counties.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.