GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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HOUSE BILL 1746

Short Title:  AIDS Prevention Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Wright; Adams, Blue, Boyd-McIntyre, Earle, Fitch, Hackney, Hardaway, H. Hunter, Kinney, Luebke, McAllister, Michaux, Mosley, Oldham, Wainwright, Womble, and Yongue.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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June 1, 1998

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 Health and Human Services the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 1998-99 fiscal year for community-based intervention efforts to combat the AIDS/HIV epidemic.  Funds appropriated under this section shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$450,000 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)	$400,000 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; and
(3)	$650,000 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.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1998.