A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the pretrial services program in the department of correction.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year for the Pretrial Services Program. These funds will be managed by the Governor's Crime Commission and will be allocated on a matching basis according to the following priorities:
(1)	Counties that received State funds through the Criminal Justice Partnership Program to operate pretrial services programs in the 2005‑2006 fiscal year.
(2)	Counties that do not currently have a pretrial services program, but would like to start one.
(3)	Counties that currently operate pretrial services programs.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.