GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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SENATE BILL 103*
Select Committee on Courts Committee Substitute Adopted 2/24/94

Short Title:  Funds for Crime Stoppers.	(Public)
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Referred to:  Finance; re-referred to Appropriations.
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February 15, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO LOCAL "CRIME STOPPERS" PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to be allocated as follows:
(1)	$25,000 to the North Carolina Crime Stoppers Association to be used as seed money for new crime stoppers programs and for reward money for information received from areas without crime stoppers programs; and
(2)	$325,000 to be divided equally among each of the 61 crime stoppers programs in operation on January 1, 1994.  These funds shall be used only as reward money by the local programs of Crime Stoppers, Inc., or CrimeStoppers, Inc., programs, for information received to help solve crimes.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.