GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 491*

Short Title:  Statewide Fam. Pres. Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Cooper.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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March 16, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE CHILD FATALITY TASK FORCE TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES IN EVERY COUNTY.
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 ––- for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of ––- for the 1994-95 fiscal year, to provide funds to make family preservation services for families at imminent risk of having a child removed from the home available in every county by 1994.  These funds shall be allocated to each county to develop a family preservation unit within each county department of social services and shall be allocated based on the number of child abuse and neglect reports received by the county.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.