A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the child welfare collaborative.
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 two million eight hundred thousand dollars ($2,800,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to be allocated to the Child Welfare Collaborative, which is a joint effort of the North Carolina Social Work Programs, the North Carolina Division of Social Services, the North Carolina Association of County Directors, and the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, the purpose of which is to expand social work programs in higher education and thereby increase the number of persons holding Bachelors of Social Work and Masters of Social Work degrees working in Child Protective Services in local departments of social services.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.