GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 773

Short Title:  AIDS Prevention $.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators McKoy, Forrester, Lucas, and Jordan.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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April 20, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO INCREASE EFFORTS TO PREVENT AIDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources the sum of one million one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($1,125,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of one million one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($1,125,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year for community-based intervention efforts to combat the AIDS/HIV epidemic and for pharmaceuticals to treat the opportunistic infections associated with AIDS.  Funds appropriated under this section shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$300,000 in each fiscal year to increase, by over 600,000 persons, the capacity of existing community-based organizations to provide outreach services to individuals at risk for HIV/AIDS;
(2)	$300,000 in each fiscal year to increase the capacity of local health departments in counties where increased community-based organization efforts occur, for the examination and treatment of persons referred by the community-based organizations, and to establish alternate counseling and testing sites that are based either at the local health department or at the community-based organization;
(3)	$400,000 to provide funding for the development of new community-based organizations to provide outreach and referral services for persons at risk for HIV/AIDS.  The primary focus of no fewer than one-half of the community-based organizations developed with funds appropriated in this section shall be services to racial and ethnic minority populations across the State; and
(4)	$125,000 in each fiscal year to fund the purchase of pharmaceuticals for treating the opportunistic infections associated with AIDS.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.