GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 629*

Short Title:  Wilderness Camping Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Colton.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 9, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE THE WILDERNESS CAMPING PROGRAM IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Youth Services, the sum of $134,006 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $144,726 for the 1992-93 fiscal year to fund the six program slots for children that were eliminated from the budget for the Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives, Inc., North Carolina Wilderness Camps in fiscal year 1990-91 due to a lack of State funds.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Youth Services, the sum of $228,480 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $246,758 for the 1992-93 fiscal year to increase the salaries of counselors with Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives, Inc., North Carolina Wilderness Camps to a level commensurate with the salary paid by the Department of Human Resources, Division of Youth Services, to the counselors employed at Camp Woodson.
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Youth Services, the sum of $240,000 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $259,200 for the 1992-93 fiscal year for eight family services workers to provide six months of intensive counseling and support services to each child, and the family of each child, graduating from an Eckerd Family Youth Alternatives, Inc., Wilderness Camp in North Carolina.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.