A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for child advocacy centers.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary, the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) of nonrecurring funds for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to be allocated to fully certified Child Advocacy Centers in this State for expanding forensic interviewing capabilities and increasing multidisciplinary team training. Of these funds, the Office of the Secretary shall allocate fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for this fiscal year to each of the 14 existing fully certified Child Advocacy Centers in this State. It is the intent of the General Assembly to continue funding these programs at seventy‑five thousand dollars ($75,000) for each member center during the second and subsequent fiscal years.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.