GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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SENATE BILL 698

Short Title:  Local LEO Minimum Salary Grants.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Parnell and Ballance.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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April 13, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FOR GRANTS TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO ESTABLISH A MINIMUM ANNUAL SALARY FOR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Department of Justice shall develop and administer a grant program to aid local governments in raising the salaries of local law enforcement officers to a minimum annual salary of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000).  These grants to local governments shall be awarded based upon a 3 to 1 match, with State funds to comprise seventy-five percent (75%) of the total amount needed to increase local law enforcement officer salaries to the minimum salary and local funds to comprise twenty-five percent (25%) of that amount.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Justice the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year for grants to local governments to establish for local law enforcement officers a minimum salary of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000) per year.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.