GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 266

Short Title:  Severe Mental Illness Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Ward; Harris, Martin of Guilford, Marvin, Plyler, Raynor, Tally, and Walker.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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February 23, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DIVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL RETARDATION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING SERVICES TO NORTH CAROLINIANS WITH SEVERE AND PERSISTENT MENTAL ILLNESS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for fiscal year 1989-90 and the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for fiscal year 1990-91 to the Division of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, Department of Human Resources to begin development of services in accordance with the Comprehensive Long Range Plan for Persons with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness presented in the 1989 Report of the Mental Health Study Commission to the 1989 General Assembly.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.