GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 415*

Short Title:  Rape Crisis Funds. 	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Colton; Baddour, Black, Bowman, Crawford, Cummings, Easterling, Gottovi, Hall, Judy Hunt, H. Hunter, Jarrell, Jenkins, Kennedy, Lemmond, Luebke, McAllister, Nesbitt, Richardson, Wilmoth, and Wright.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 11, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR RAPE CRISIS AND SEXUAL ASSAULT PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Administration, North Carolina Council for Women, the sum of one million seven hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($1,725,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of one million seven hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($1,725,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for the prevention of sexual assault and the continuation and development of rape crisis and sexual assault programs within the State, to be allocated as follows:
(1)	Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year shall be used for a grant-in-aid to the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Incorporated;
(2)	One million five hundred sixty thousand dollars ($1,560,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and one million five hundred sixty thousand dollars ($1,560,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year shall be evenly divided and used as grants-in-aid of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) each year of the biennium for the operation of each of the 52 rape crisis/sexual assault programs in operation on January 1, 1993, and providing a 24-hour crisis line, community education, victim advocacy,  support services, and other services;
(3)	One hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) shall be used for the development of new rape crisis/sexual assault programs.  The North Carolina Council for Women may award grants of up to thirty thousand dollars ($30,000).
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.