GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 181

Short Title:  Worker Training Trust Fund.	(Public)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors: Representatives Easterling; Chapin, Creech, Cunningham, James, and Lineberry.
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  Appropriations.
─────────────────────────────────────── 

February 28, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FROM THE WORKER TRAINING TRUST FUND AND FROM THE SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT SECURITY ADMINISTRATION FUND. 
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 96-5(f), there is appropriated from the Worker Training Trust Fund to the following agencies the following sums for the 1991-92 fiscal year and, unless otherwise stated, an equal amount for the 1992-93 fiscal year for the following purposes:
(a)	The sum of $5,000,000 to the Employment Security Commission for the operation of local offices at the 1986-87 level of service.
(b)	The sum of $1,960,000 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $2,000,000 for the 1992-93 fiscal year to the North Carolina Department of Economic and Community Development for a State job training program to be administered through the Job Training Partnership Act system aimed at the unemployed and the working poor.
(c)	The sum of $250,000 to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to establish five new Tech Prep programs in the public schools.
(d)	The sum of $500,000 to the North Carolina Department of Labor for customized training of the hard-core unemployed for specific jobs needed by employers through the Department's Pre-Apprenticeship Division.
(e)	The sum of $1,960,000 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $2,000,000 for the 1992-93 fiscal year to the North Carolina Department of Human Resources to assist welfare recipients in gaining employment through the federally funded Job Opportunities and Basic Skills program in such a way as to gain the maximum match of federal funds for the State dollars appropriated.
Sec. 2. Notwithstanding G.S. 96-5(c), there is appropriated from the Special Employment Security Administration Fund to the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina, the sum of $2,000,000 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $2,000,000 for the 1992-93 fiscal year for administration of the Veterans Employment Program, Employment Services Program, and Unemployment Insurance Program. 
Sec. 3. Beginning October 1, 1991, each of the departments receiving funds pursuant to Sections 1 or 2 shall report on a quarterly basis to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on the use of these funds. 
Sec. 4. Any portion of an appropriation in Section 1 of this act that is unspent at the end of the fiscal year shall revert to the Worker Training Trust Fund and not to the General Fund. 
Sec. 5. This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.