GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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SENATE BILL 112
Select Committee on Courts Committee Substitute Adopted 2/24/94

Short Title:  Incarcerations Altern. Funds.	(Public)
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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February 15, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR PILOT PROGRAMS TO PROVIDE ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL RETARDATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to fund two pilot programs to provide alternatives to incarceration for people with mental retardation.
The pilot programs shall be administered jointly by the Department of Human Resources and the Department of Correction under the direction of the Council.  The two pilot programs shall serve a total of up to 100 individuals with mental retardation who, if not for the pilot program, would be incarcerated.  These pilot programs shall not serve any individual convicted of a Class A, B, C, D, or E felony.
The Council shall report the results of these pilot programs, together with recommendations, to the General Assembly by March 15, 1995.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.