GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 91*

Short Title:  Domestic Violence Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Beard; Bowman, Fletcher, Gottovi, H. Hunter, Jeralds, Luebke, Privette, and Warner.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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February 18, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION TO HELP SUPPORT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION PROGRAMS AND CENTERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Administration, Council on the Status of Women, the sum of $1,801,516 for the 1991-92 fiscal year and the sum of $1,801,516 for the 1992-93 fiscal year to support programs to prevent domestic violence and sexual assault to be allocated as follows:
(1)	Each of the 61 domestic violence centers in operation on January 1, 1991, and in operation on the date of the allocation, that offers services including a 24-hour hotline, transportation services, community education programs, daytime counseling services, and call forwarding during the night, shall receive a grant of $30,000 each year of the 1991-93 biennium to be used for operation of the center.
(2)	Each of the 47 sexual assault programs in operation on January 1, 1991, and in operation on the date of the allocation, that offers services including a 24-hour hotline, transportation services, community education programs, daytime counseling services, and call forwarding during the night, shall receive a grant of $30,000 each year of the 1991-93 biennium to be used for operation of the program.
(3)	The sum of $150,000 in each year of the 1991-93 biennium to be used for start-up of additional programs to address problems of domestic violence and of sexual assault; provided that not more than the sum of $30,000 may be granted to each new domestic violence and each new sexual assault program that meets criteria established by the Council on the Status of Women.
(4)	The sum of $30,000 in fiscal year 1991-92 and the sum of $30,000 in fiscal year 1992-93 shall be used for grants-in-aid of $15,000 in each fiscal year to the North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc., and $15,000 in each fiscal year to the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Inc.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.