A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate federal funds under the tanf block grant for the prevention of adolescent pregnancies and out‑of‑wedlock births and to sustain prevention programs.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant funds received for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, the sum of one million seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($1,750,000) to the Department of Health and Human Services for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to be allocated to the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention programs established under G.S. 130A‑131.15A. The funds shall be used for local pregnancy prevention programs, initiatives, and to provide grants to local health departments for the prevention of out‑of‑wedlock births. In funding pregnancy prevention programs, initiatives, and out-of-wedlock births prevention, the TANF funds shall be used as follows:  (i) to restore cuts that were made in 2001; (ii) to offset pending cuts in Medicaid funds; (iii) to continue to provide competitive grants to local programs; and (iv) to provide grants to local health departments for out-of-wedlock births prevention.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.