GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 306

Short Title:  Foster Care Worker Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Winner, Martin of Guilford, Cooper, Martin of Pitt, Allran, and Gulley.

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Referred to:  Children and Human Resources

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March 6, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO
AN ACT RECOMMENDED BY THE CHILD FATALITY TASK FORCE TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR ADDITIONAL FOSTER CARE LICENSING AND PLACEMENT WORKERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Social Services, Department of Human Resources, the sum of three million five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of three million five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to provide additional foster care licensing and placement workers for county departments of social services.
The additional foster care workers funded by this section will bring the recommended standard ratios in all 100 counties to one child placement worker to 25 children and to one foster care licensing worker to 32 foster homes.  These workers will recruit, train, and support foster care families.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.