A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services, DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH, FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A STATEWIDE PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN TO REDUCE THE OCCURRENCE OF BOTH SIDS AND INFANT SUFFOCATION AND STRANGULATION.
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 Public Health, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to develop and implement a statewide public awareness campaign to reduce the occurrence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and infant suffocation and strangulation.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.