GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 284

Short Title:  GPAC/ADATC Single-Stream Fund. Pilot.	(Public)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
─────────────────────────────────────── 

February 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP A MULTIYEAR PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPLEMENT A SINGLE STREAM OF FUNDING FOR THE STATE'S ALCOHOL DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS (ADATC'S).
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Department of Human Resources shall develop a multiyear pilot program to implement a single stream of funding system for the State's Alcohol Drug Abuse Treatment Centers (ADATC's).  The program shall include a gradual transfer of funds from the ADATC's to the community area mental health authorities concomitant with the transfer to the area authorities of the responsibility of providing appropriate services to those persons in need of residential alcohol/drug abuse treatment services and the implementation of a single portal of entry State policy for all admissions to the ADATC's.  The pilot program shall provide technical assistance to area authorities to prepare them for the implementation of the single stream of funding system.
Sec. 2.  Of the funds appropriated in the 1993-94 fiscal year and the 1994-95 fiscal year to the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services for Alcohol Drug Abuse Treatment Centers (ADATC's), fourteen percent (14%), or one million four hundred fifty-four thousand two hundred ninety-nine dollars ($1,454,299), are transferred each fiscal year to area mental health authorities, to implement the pilot project established by this act.
Sec. 3.  It is the intent of the General Assembly to transfer from the funds appropriated to the Division of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services, Department of Human Resources, for the ADATC's for the 1995-96 fiscal year, for the 1996-97 fiscal year, and for the 1997-98 fiscal year, fourteen percent (14%), or one million four hundred fifty-four thousand two hundred ninety-nine dollars ($1,454,299), each fiscal year to area mental health authorities, to implement the pilot program established in this act.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.