A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS NETWORK, a MENTAL HEALTH LOCAL MANAGEMENT ENTITY, AND TO THE MOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER.
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 five hundred seventy‑seven thousand five hundred ninety‑five dollars ($577,595) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to be allocated as follows: 
(1)	$100,000 to the Western Highlands Network, a mental health local management entity; and 
(2)	$477,595 to the Mountain Area Health Education Center.
These funds shall be used to continue a pilot project to ensure that mental health, developmental disability, and substance abuse services are coordinated and integrated with primary care.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.