GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 81
HOUSE BILL 375

AN ACT TO REMOVE THE LIMITATION ON FUNDING FOR THE PER DIEM COSTS OF INMATES HOUSED OUT-OF-STATE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Subsection (c) of Section 21.2 of Chapter 769 of the 1993 Session Laws reads as rewritten:
"(c)	The availability of out-of-state housing funds shall be reduced by (i) the amount needed to fund local confinement costs for offenders held in contempt for probation violations under G.S. 15A-1344(e1); and (ii) the amount required to comply with subsections (a) and (b) of this section.  ."
Sec. 2.  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Correction for the 1994-95 fiscal year which are not needed for the purposes for which they were appropriated, the sum of six million five hundred thousand dollars ($6,500,000) shall revert upon ratification of this act.   There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of six million five hundred thousand dollars ($6,500,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to continue housing inmates in out-of-state facilities through June 30, 1995.
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of May, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives