A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the Department of Health and Human Services to provide funding for doctoral psychology internship programs.
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 two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to the eight doctoral psychology intern programs located in State‑funded programs to provide stipends for interns, maintain a stable funding base, and reinstate two intern slots lost in previous years' budget cuts.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.