GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

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SENATE BILL 1452
State and Local Government Committee Substitute Adopted 6/7/00

Short Title:  Juvenile Detention Funds.	(Public)

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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 MULTIPURPOSE GROUP HOMES FOR 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 multipurpose group homes to house juvenile offenders.  A maximum of two beds per home may be designated for secure detention.  The homes may be used to house male juvenile offenders until the population of female juvenile offenders in the area served by the facilities increases such that both homes are needed to house female offenders.  The Office of Juvenile Justice may contract with Mecklenburg County to implement this act and to assure that the multipurpose group homes authorized pursuant to this act are consistent with similar facilities in this State.
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2000.