A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate matching funds for the construction of veterans nursing homes in asheville and kinston.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of eight million seven hundred seventy‑three thousand three hundred dollars ($8,773,300) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to provide a State match for the construction of two 100‑bed nursing homes to provide skilled care for the State's veterans.  The nursing homes will be constructed, one in Asheville and the other in Kinston. These funds will match federal funds, thirty‑five percent (35%) State funds, sixty‑five percent (65%) federal funds.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.