GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1344

Short Title:  Maternity Home and Adoption Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Hyde.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 25, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR MATERNITY HOME AND ADOPTION SERVICES FOR YOUNG SINGLE MOTHERS AND FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN AT RISK OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY, HOMELESSNESS, ABUSE, AND NEGLECT.
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 sixty-five thousand dollars ($665,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for the State Maternity Home Fund to provide maternity home services to single pregnant young women 10 years of age and older for the purposes of protecting and enhancing maternal and child health, reducing infant mortality and morbidity, reducing the number of unintended second pregnancies, preventing mothers from permanently dropping out of school, preventing welfare dependency, and providing adoption and parenting support.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, Inc., the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for the purposes of recruiting and training families to adopt children with special needs and of providing postadoption and support services for these families and children.  Children with special needs include medically fragile infants and children, sibling groups, abused, neglected, and abandoned infants and children, HIV-positive infants and children, addicted infants, children with behavior problems and emotional disorders, minority infants and children, and older children.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.