A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the strive program.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to LIFE of North Carolina, Inc., a nonprofit organization, the sum of two hundred twenty‑five thousand dollars ($225,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used for the STRIVE Employment Training Program to assist in rebuilding the lives of persons found to be the hardest to employ, unemployable, or in need of job readiness training and to expand program services into Nash, Edgecombe, Wayne, Lenoir, Beaufort, Martin, Bertie, and Hertford counties.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.