A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO provide tier 3 services to adults with severe mental illness and to DEVELOP A PILOT PROGRAM PROVIDING CROSS‑AREA SERVICES TO ADULTS WITH SEVERE mental illness.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  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 fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to Caramore Community, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to pay for Tier 3 services to adults with severe mental illness.
SECTION 1.(b)  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 seven hundred thirty‑nine thousand one hundred fifty‑eight dollars ($739,158) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of seven hundred thirty‑nine thousand one hundred fifty‑eight dollars ($739,158) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to be allocated to Caramore Community, Inc., to develop a pilot program providing cross‑area services to adults with severe mental illness in one additional LME.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.