GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

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HOUSE BILL 1528

Short Title:  Adoption/Foster Care Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Brawley; Esposito, Gardner, and Isenhower.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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June 3, 1992

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE SUBSIDY RATES FOR PLACEMENT FOR HARD-TO-PLACE CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Section 99 of Chapter 689 of the 1991 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 99.  For the 1991-92 fiscal year, the adoption subsidy paid monthly by the Division of Social Services, Department of Human Resources, to eligible families who adopt hard-to-place children shall be established at one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per month.  For the 1992-93 fiscal year, this adoption rate subsidy shall be established at two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) per month."
Sec. 2.  Section 100 of Chapter 689 of the 1991 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 100.  For the 1991-92 fiscal year, funds appropriated to the Department of Human Resources by this Title for foster care assistance rates shall be used to set the rates at two hundred sixty-five dollars ($265.00) per child per month.  For the 1992-93 fiscal year, the foster care rate paid monthly for foster care for adolescents with special needs shall be established at five hundred dollars ($500.00) per month.  The foster care rate for all other children shall remain at two hundred sixty-five dollars ($265.00) per month."
Sec. 3. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Social Services, Department of Human Resources, the sum of three million four hundred forty-three thousand five hundred twenty-five dollars ($3,443,525) for the 1992-93 fiscal year to implement this act.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1992.