A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the State Adult Day care Fund and to the home and community care block grant to provide for a rate increase for Adult day services, as recommended by the north carolina study commission on aging.
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 one million forty‑three thousand seven hundred fifty dollars ($1,043,750) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year, to be used to increase the rate paid to adult day and adult day health programs for services provided to clients. Of these funds, five hundred fifty‑six thousand five hundred fifty‑six dollars ($556,556) shall be placed in the State Adult Day Care Fund, and four hundred eighty‑seven thousand one hundred ninety‑four dollars ($487,194) shall be placed in the Home and Community Care Block Grant. The rate for adult day care and adult day health care shall be increased by no less than five dollars ($5.00) per day per client.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.