AN ACT to increase the number of assignments to the special assistance in‑home program of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Funds appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year may be used to increase the maximum number of assignments to the special assistance in‑home program to 1,500 persons. 
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of July, 2006.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 1:47 p.m. this 23rd day of July, 2006