A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Trust Fund for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services and Bridge Funding Needs as recommended by coalition 2001.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Trust Fund for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services and Bridge Funding Needs the sum of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used for the following purposes in accordance with G.S. 143‑15.l3D:
(1)	Crisis services, including those that are mobile and community based along a continuum that serves both children and adults in order to prevent institutionalization.
(2)	Children's services that are preventative, provide for early intervention, and are community focused.
(3)	Bridge/start‑up funding for community‑based services to individuals in the target population who are unserved or underserved.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.