GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

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SENATE BILL 765

Short Title:  Legal Aid Services Fund Limit.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Block.
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Referred to:  State Personnel and State Government.
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April 24, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO LIMIT THE USE OF STATE FUNDS BY LEGAL AID SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 7A-474.3(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	Limitations.  No funds appropriated under this Article shall be used for any of the following purposes:
(1)	To provide legal assistance with respect to any proceeding or litigation which seeks to procure a nontherapeutic abortion or to compel any individual or institution to perform an abortion, or assist in the performance of an abortion, or provide facilities for the performance of an abortion;
(2)	To provide legal assistance with respect to any criminal proceeding;
(3)	To provide legal assistance to any agricultural employee or migrant farmworker employed in North Carolina with regard to the terms of the worker's employment, including conditions relating to housing;
(4)	To provide legal assistance to any prisoner within the North Carolina Department of Correction with regard to the terms of that person's incarceration; 
(5)	To provide legal assistance to persons with mental handicaps residing in State institutions with regard to the terms and conditions of the treatment or services provided to them by the State; or
(6)	To bring a class action suit against the State."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991.