A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for community‑based corrections programs.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of four hundred ninety‑seven thousand dollars ($497,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year for the Criminal Justice Partnership Program.  The funds shall be used to provide treatment and employment programming post‑sentencing to misdemeanor and felony offenders. 
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of eight hundred seventeen thousand dollars ($817,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year for the drug treatment court programs.  The funds shall be used to provide services to and oversight of chemically dependent offenders.
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department, Office of Indigent Defense Services, the sum of two million one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($2,190,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year for sentencing services to match offenders with appropriate community resources and provide information to the courts regarding community resources.
SECTION 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year for the Women at Risk program for female offenders in Haywood, Madison, Henderson, McDowell, and Rutherford Counties.
SECTION 5.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of two hundred ninety‑two thousand dollars ($292,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year for the DART‑Cherry program, a residential substance abuse program for parolees and probationers who have been convicted of driving while impaired.
SECTION 6.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.