GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 475*

Short Title:  Adoption Resources Center Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative G. Miller.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 23, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR AN ADOPTION RESOURCES CENTER.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, Inc., the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year, as start-up funds and operating costs incurred in establishing and operating an adoption resource center for North Carolina.
Sec. 2.  The adoption resource center established by the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, Inc., shall address issues faced by birth mothers, adoptees, and adoptive families and shall focus on the need to recruit families to adopt children of African-American or biracial heritage, children with special medical, physical, or emotional needs, and older children.  The center shall address the issue of matching private and public local funds, State funds, and federal government funds to save tax dollars for North Carolinians.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.