GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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SENATE BILL 116*
Select Committee on Courts Committee Substitute Adopted 2/18/94

Short Title:  GAPS 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 TO THE GREATER AFTER PRISON SUPPORT PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction, Division of Prisons, the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars ($85,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to support the Greater After Prison Support program (GAPS), a community-based prerelease and aftercare program for prison inmates.  The GAPS program is designed to rehabilitate prison inmates and reduce recidivism by developing positive mental attitudes in those inmates.
Sec. 2.  The Greater After Prison Support program shall report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on the expenditure of State appropriations and on the effectiveness of the program, including information on the number of clients served, the number of clients who complete the prerelease component of the program, and the number of clients who participate in the postrelease component of the program.
Sec. 3.  The Department of Correction shall track the Greater After Prison Support program with an evaluation model consistent with existing models that show the impact of the program on participants regarding postrelease parole violations, rearrests, and recidivism rates.  The Department shall provide a written evaluation of the program to the Chairs of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees and the Chairs of the House and Senate Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety, the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, and the Fiscal Research Division by May 1, 1995.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.