GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1569

Short Title:  Disabled/Ind. Living Funds.	(Public)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors: Representatives Nye; Gottovi, Bowman, Jeffus, McCrary, Sexton, Ives, J. Preston, Russell, Culp, and Colton.
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  Appropriations.
─────────────────────────────────────── 

May 25, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR SERVICES FOR THE DISABLED NEEDING ASSISTANCE IN INDEPENDENT LIVING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, Department of Human Resources, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to provide funds to assist the disabled to move towards independent living.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$450,000 shall be used to contract with United Cerebral Palsy of North Carolina to provide housing and supported living services to physically and developmentally disabled persons to enable them to live as independently as possible in residences in the community.  These funds may be used by United Cerebral Palsy to purchase, lease, or rent real estate property in its name and to renovate these properties to make them accessible to physically disabled persons; and
(2)	$50,000 shall be used to contract with the ARC of North Carolina (Association for Retarded Citizens) to provide technical assistance to developmentally disabled individuals seeking to live independently in privately held real estate properties.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.