A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services FOR ALLOCATION TO Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC), INC., A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, FOR RENOVATIONS AND EQUIPMENT.
Whereas, OIC, Inc., of Rocky Mount has been providing comprehensive human services in Nash and Edgecombe Counties for 39 years; and
Whereas, OIC, Inc., provides education, training, employment placement, health care, child care, business development, and primary medical services for 2,000 people monthly; and
Whereas, the Booker T. Washington physical plant needs complete renovation to accommodate the thousands of citizens that use the facility monthly; and
Whereas, the OIC, Inc., Medical Center is the only area medical practice that does not cap Medicaid and accepts uninsured patients; Now, therefore,
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 three million dollars ($3,000,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to OIC, Inc., a nonprofit organization in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, that provides comprehensive human services in Nash and Edgecombe Counties.  The funds shall be allocated in the following amounts for the following purposes:
(1)	$2,000,000 for renovation of the historic Booker T. Washington School for OIC's administrative and training divisions; and
(2)	$1,000,000 for physical plant and equipment improvement and upgrades at the OIC Medical Center.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.