GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 619

Short Title:  Head Start Facility Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Lucas, Edwards, Gulley, and Jordan.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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April 10, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR FACILITIES FOR HEAD START PROGRAMS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  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 identified above.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.