A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services TO ADDRESS THE PUBLIC HEALTH AIDS CRISIS.
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 five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to address the public health AIDS crisis through increased risk reduction, prevention, and counseling and testing activities through local health departments, community‑based organizations, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and HIV Care Consortia.  In allocating these funds, special emphasis shall be placed on reaching populations disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.