A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to reduce the recidivism rate by establishing an educational program designed to provide nonviolent offenders with a productive education.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to establish an educational program designed to reduce the recidivism rate by providing nonviolent offenders with an associate's degree or other education sufficient to make them productive members of society.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.