GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 1689

Short Title:  HIV Foster Care Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives H. Hunter; Adams, Ives, Kennedy, McLawhorn, Wainwright, and Wright.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 26, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR FOSTER CARE, RESPITE CARE, AND ADOPTION NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH HIV.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Social Services, the sum of six hundred fifty-seven thousand eight hundred fifty dollars ($657,850) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for the foster care, respite care, and adoption of children with HIV.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$499,500 for foster care board payment, allocated as follows:
a.	$800.00 per month per child with indeterminate HIV status;
b.	$1,000 per month per child confirmed HIV-infected, as symptomatic;
c.	$1,200 per month per child confirmed HIV-infected, symptomatic; and 
d.	$1,600 per month per child terminally ill with complex care needs; 
(2)	$73,350 for respite care for two days a month foster care per child with HIV and for respite care for five nonfoster care children with HIV;
(3)	$35,000 for adoption of children with HIV to cover the total cost of adoption for five children in 1994 and to assist adoptive families with the counseling that will be needed by the child and the family to adjust to the adoption, the HIV disease progression, or the death of the adopted child; and 
(4)	$50,000 for foster care prevention research, to analyze the factors that bring HIV children into foster care and to discover ways to prevent HIV foster care.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.