GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 648

Short Title:  Regional Halfway House Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Johnson of Wake; Sherron and Staton.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 27, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A REGIONAL HALFWAY HOUSE FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL REGION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services, the sum of nine hundred sixty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars ($969,800) for the 1989-90 fiscal year and the sum of three hundred fifty-nine thousand dollars ($359,000) for the 1990-91 fiscal year for the Lee-Harnett Area Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Authority for the construction and operation of a regional halfway house for substance abusers in the South Central Region.
Sec. 2.  The regional halfway house shall be a 20-bed facility for male alcohol/drug offenders and involuntarily committed substance abusers, as an alternative to incarceration and institutionalization. The regional halfway house shall provide a regimen of services in accordance with State licensure and standards for the operation of a substance abuse halfway house.
Sec. 3.  Funds appropriated though this act shall not be used to supplant or diminish in any way existing community based services for substance abusers in the South Central Region.
Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.