GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 466

Short Title:  Catch-up Underfunded Smart Start Cos.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Winner, Odom, Gulley, Lucas, Edwards, Rand, and Dannelly.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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March 23, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES TO ESTABLISH A MECHANISM TO FULLY FUND LOCAL SMART START PROJECTS THAT CURRENTLY ARE UNDERFUNDED, AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  No local Smart Start project that is selected on or after the effective date of this act shall receive more than eighty percent (80%) of its total allocation until all local Smart Start projects receive at least eighty percent (80%) of their total allocations.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Child Development, Department of Human Resources, the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to be allocated to local Smart Start projects selected in 1993 and 1994 that did not receive their full allocation of State funds.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.