GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1452

Short Title:  Juvenile Detention Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Odom.

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Referred to:  State and Local Government.

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May 25, 2000

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ALLOW FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR A DETENTION HOME FOR FEMALE JUVENILE OFFENDERS IN MECKLENBURG COUNTY TO BE USED FOR TWO DETENTION FACILITIES TO HOUSE BOTH MALE AND FEMALE OFFENDERS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. The funds appropriated in S.L. 1998-212 and reallocated in S.L. 1999-237 to the Office of Juvenile Justice to construct an eight-bed secure group home for female offenders in Mecklenburg County and to upgrade the Gatling Detention Center to meet fire marshal standards may be used to construct two eight-bed facilities to house juvenile offenders in both secure and nonsecure detention.  Mecklenburg County may use one of the  facilities authorized pursuant to this section to house male juvenile offenders until the population of female juvenile offenders in the area served by the facilities increases such that both facilities are needed to house female offenders.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2000.