A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS to the Department of Health and Human Services FOR NC HEALTHy START FOUNDATION INITIATIVES.
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 four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  The Department shall allocate these funds as a grant-in-aid to the North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation to increase involvement and awareness of infant mortality‑related issues among key statewide, health related, professional organizations, and to increase infant mortality and morbidity awareness and adoption of risk reduction strategies and resources in some of the State's most at-risk geographic areas.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.