GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 370

Short Title:  Day Care "Notch" Increase/Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Lucas, Ballance, Hobbs, Gulley, and Martin of Guilford.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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March 14, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT RECOMMENDED BY THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION CHILD CARE COMMITTEE TO AID CERTAIN WORKING PARENTS OF LOW-INCOME CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT CURRENTLY RECEIVING CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES TO RECEIVE SUBSIDIES TO ENABLE THEM TO CONTINUE TO WORK, AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  In order to enable families that are working and that are struggling to remain self-sufficient but who need aid with child care in order to remain so, effective July 1, 1995, eligibility limits for State and federal child day care subsidies for families initially needing subsidies on or after this date are increased one economic "notch" above their current eligibility level.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Child Development, Department of Human Resources, the sum of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to implement this act.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.