GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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HOUSE BILL 211

Short Title:  HIV Counseling Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives H. Hunter; Colton, Cummings, and Wainwright.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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February 14, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO MAKE COUNSELING AVAILABLE TO HIV POSITIVE INMATES AND THEIR FAMILIES UPON RELEASE FROM INCARCERATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of one million three hundred ten thousand seven hundred forty-seven dollars ($1,310,747) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to be allocated to local health departments to provide counseling to persons released from prison who have tested positive for HIV and to provide counseling to the families of such persons.  Initial counseling shall be provided within 30 days of release from prison.  Counseling services shall include, but not be limited to, information on the transmission of HIV and on resources available to infected persons for treatment and other services.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.