A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR VISION SCREENING FOR CHILDREN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Divisions of Services for the Blind and Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the sum of four hundred twenty thousand dollars ($420,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred twenty thousand dollars ($420,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to Prevent Blindness North Carolina, Inc., as follows:
(1)	$125,000 in each fiscal year for the Kenneth Royall Children's Vision Screening Program; and
(2)	$125,000 in each fiscal year to expand the number of children screened under the NC Preschool Screening Program; and
(3)	$170,000 in each fiscal year for screenings of children served under the More at Four Program.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.