GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 626

Short Title:  Adoption Subsidy Increase.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Easterling, Colton; Jeffus, Kennedy, Russell, and Wainwright.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 29, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO INCREASE THE ADOPTION SUBSIDY RATE FOR FAMILIES WHO ADOPT HARD-TO-PLACE CHILDREN AT THE SAME RATE AS THE FOSTER CARE BOARD RATE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Social Services, Department of Human Resources, the sum of six hundred forty-eight thousand five hundred forty dollars ($648,540) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of six hundred seventy thousand three hundred three dollars ($670,303) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to increase the adoption subsidy rate for families who adopt hard-to-place children from two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month per child to two hundred sixty-five dollars ($265.00) per month per child, the same rate as the foster care board rate.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.