GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1131

Short Title:  DD Independent Living Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Walker; Harris and Soles.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 12, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED FOR 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 four million dollars ($4,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year, to establish a capital fund for the purchase of real estate to provide independent living sites for persons with developmental disabilities participating in independent living programs or Medicaid-waiver programs.
The Division may grant funds appropriated by this act to organizations for the purchase and maintenance of real property and for security deposits and utility deposits, used to provide independent community-based living sites for developmentally disabled persons participating in supported living programs or Medicaid-waiver services, whose participation in these programs is dependent on independent housing.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.