GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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HOUSE BILL 62

Short Title:  Funds for Female Offenders Programs.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Colton, Easterling, Nesbitt, and Crawford.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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February 9, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE WOMEN AT RISK PROGRAM, A SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS PROGRAM ESTABLISHED IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY, AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ESTABLISH AND OPERATE A SIMILAR PROGRAM IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice in Buncombe County the sum of one hundred five thousand dollars ($105,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year to be distributed as follows:
(1)	$90,000 for the operating expenses of the Women At Risk Program, a successful community-based treatment alternative for jail-bound and prison-bound female offenders established in 1988 by Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice for the purpose of reducing jail overcrowding by assisting women offenders in overcoming old patterns of behavior, including victimization and abuse, that have rendered them at risk of imprisonment; and
(2)	$15,000 to oversee the establishment of a similar program in Mecklenburg County;
and the sum of ninety thousand dollars ($90,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for the operating expenses of the Women At Risk Program.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Mecklenburg Community Corrections, Inc., in Mecklenburg County the sum of forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year for the operating expenses of its new program modeled after the Women At Risk Program in Buncombe County, which new program is scheduled to begin operation January 1995.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.