A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for reducing preterm births and for sids risk reduction efforts, as recommended by the child fatality task force.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to provide education for community-based health care providers and women in need and to purchase medication for eligible low‑income and minority women.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used for the development and implementation of messages and materials for an ongoing Safe Sleep Awareness campaign, which will highlight safe sleep practices to aid in the prevention of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.