A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, FOR THE SPECIAL CARE 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, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, the sum of one million seven hundred six thousand five hundred nine dollars ($1,706,509) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used for 100 new positions to promote mental health reform by enhancing the Center's ability to provide nursing care to patients of the State psychiatric hospitals who cannot be placed in community nursing care due to the severity of their psychiatric or behavioral difficulties.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.