GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 696*

Short Title:  Radio Reading Services Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Tally; Sherron, Raynor, Swain, and Winner.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 30, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA RADIO READING SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Association of Radio Reading Services the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1989-90 fiscal year to expand radio reading services in North Carolina, which provide reading services to the blind and visually impaired in North Carolina.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	One hundred sixty thousand dollars ($160,000) to expand the four existing North Carolina Radio Reading Services in terms of increasing local broadcasting hours and the number of listeners served.  These Services are:
a.	Western North Carolina Radio Reading Service, Inc.;
b.	CPCC Radio, in Charlotte;
c.	Radio Reading Service, Inc., in Raleigh; and
d.	Southeastern North Carolina Radio Reading Service, in Fayetteville.
(2)	Forty thousand dollars ($40,000) to encourage the creation of radio reading services in areas presently not being served in North Carolina.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.