A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the Department of Health and Human Services for equalizing STATE funding among area and county programs.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year. These funds shall be allocated by the Division for the purpose of equalizing State funding among the area and county mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse services programs.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.