A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to Appropriate Funds and to require the social services commission TO adopt a rate increase for adult day services, as Recommended by the North carolina Study Commission on Aging.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.	There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services an amount sufficient to increase the current minimum rates by no less than five dollars ($5.00) per day for adult day and adult day health services provided to clients. 
SECTION 2.  The Social Services Commission shall adopt rules increasing the minimum rates by five dollars ($5.00) per day for adult day centers, and by five dollars ($5.00) per day for adult day health centers.
SECTION 3.	This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.