GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 985

Short Title:  Head Start Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative H. Hunter.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 20, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR HEAD START PROGRAMS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
––-WRAPAROUND FUNDS
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Child Development, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to provide funds for authorized Head Start grantees to provide care before and after the Head Start Program and to provide summer programs for children who are eligible for Head Start.
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Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Child Development, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year for the establishment of five new Head Start parent-child development centers throughout the State.
Sec. 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Child Development, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to provide an additional twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per year for each of the existing Head Start parent-child development centers and for each of the five new centers established in accordance with Section 2 of this act.
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Sec 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Child Development, the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year to provide grants to local private nonprofit agencies administering Head Start programs.  These funds shall be used by the Head Start agencies for the payment of the cost of acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, renovating, equipping, and improving classroom facilities for the existing Head Start programs.  The Department of Human Resources shall develop a formula for the distribution of State supplemental Head Start funds to those counties with the greatest relative burden of low-income children who qualify for Head Start, which formula shall include consideration of the percentage of North Carolina's unserved eligible Head Start children in each county and any other statistical indicator that is in keeping with the legislative intent.
Each Head Start program that is allocated State supplemental Head Start funds pursuant to this section shall submit a budget for review by the State.  The budget shall itemize the program's expenditure of State funds.  The expenditure needs shall fall under the allowable expenditure categories.
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Sec. 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.