GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SECOND EXTRA SESSION 1996

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HOUSE BILL 48

Short Title:  AIDS Prevention Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative Wright.

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Referred to:  Rules.

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July 10, 1996

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO INCREASE EFFORTS FOR THE PREVENTION OF 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 dollars ($1,000,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year for community-based intervention efforts to combat the AIDS/HIV epidemic.  Funds appropriated under this section shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$300,000 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 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.
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.