GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

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HOUSE BILL 954

Short Title:  State Subsidies/Detention Homes.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives McLaughlin; Abernethy, Balmer, Barbee, Barnhill, Black, Bowman, Buchanan, N. J. Crawford, Cunningham, Easterling, Esposito, Flaherty, Foster, Grimmer, Loflin, Privette, and  Rhodes.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 19, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT STATE SUBSIDIES SHALL BE PAID TO COUNTY-OPERATED DETENTION HOMES FOR THE CARE OF CHILDREN FROM WITHIN THE COUNTY AS WELL AS FOR THE CARE OF CHILDREN FROM ANOTHER COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 134A-38 reads as rewritten:
"§ 134A-38.  State subsidy to county detention homes.
The Department shall develop a State subsidy program to pay a county detention home which provides juvenile detention services and meets State standards a certain per diem per child for any child cared for as recommended in said report.  In general, this per diem should be fifty percent (50%) of the total cost of caring for a child from within the county and 100 percent (100%) of the total cost of caring for a child from another county.  Any county placing a child in a detention home in another county shall pay fifty percent (50%) of the total cost of caring for the child to the Department.  The exact funding formulas may be varied by the Department to operate within existing State appropriations or other funds that may be available to pay for juvenile detention care."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.