A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services TO FUND SERVICES AND SUPPORT FOR Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse services community‑based program, as REQUESTED BY COALITION 2001.
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 thirty‑eight million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($38,250,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated for community‑based programs providing mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse services as follows:
(1)	$3,750,000 for residential service assistance.
(2)	$30,000,000 to reduce the waiting list for services and for community capacity building.
(3)	$3,000,000 for training and workforce development.
(4)	$1,500,000 for tracking and outcome monitoring.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Trust Fund for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services and Bridge Funding Needs the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated by the Department of Health and Human Services as follows:
(1)	$5,000,000 for residential development.
(2)	$12,000,000 to reduce the waiting list for services, and for service start‑up bridge funding crisis and other start‑up areas for developing community capacity.
(3)	$2,500,000 for training and workforce development.
(4)	$500,000 for consumer and outcome tracking.
SECTION 3.  Coalition 2001 urges the General Assembly to provide automatic inflationary increases in State and Medicaid dollars for community‑based services, and to adopt a policy that provides for these increases on an annual basis.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.