A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the departments of Juvenile justice and delinquency prevention and correction for  juvenile and adult offender programs in mecklenburg county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention the sum of one million five hundred eleven thousand dollars ($1,511,000) for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year to be allocated to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council in Mecklenburg County.  These funds shall be used to restore funding for the programs in Mecklenburg County that provide services to at‑risk juveniles, juveniles who have been adjudicated delinquent or undisciplined, and the families of those juveniles.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of four hundred ninety‑eight thousand four hundred dollars ($498,400) for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year to be allocated to the Mecklenburg County Criminal Justice Advisory Partnership Board for a grant to the Structured Day Program in Mecklenburg County.  The Structured Day Program is an alternative to incarceration providing enhanced supervision, job skill development, and substance abuse treatment to nonviolent drug and property offenders.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.