A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for summit house.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of three hundred ninety‑one thousand three hundred eighty‑two dollars ($391,382) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred seventy‑two thousand seven hundred twenty‑two dollars ($472,722) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to increase the funding for Summit House, a community‑based residential alternative to incarceration for mothers and pregnant women convicted of nonviolent crimes. The additional funds will be used to increase the number of mothers and children served by the program, hire additional staff to handle this increase in clients, develop evaluation processes, and otherwise prepare for undergoing accreditation through the Council on Accreditation and the Community Corrections Association and make other programming and staffing improvements necessary to maintain the highest standards of service.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.