A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide for the direct allocation to the lumbee tribal council of available state and federal funds for aging and adult services provided to lumbee indians.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services, shall allocate directly to the Government of the Lumbee People, known as the Tribal Council of the Lumbee Nation, the available State and federal funds for aging and adult services provided to Lumbee Indians. The amount of the allocation to the Tribal Council of the Lumbee Nation shall be based on per capita data taken from the 2000 U.S. Federal Census for the counties of Robeson, Hoke, Scotland, and Cumberland.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.