A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to provide comprehensive residential treatment for probationers with substance abuse disorders.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers (TROSA), a nonprofit State‑licensed therapeutic community serving repeat offenders statewide. These funds shall be used to provide comprehensive residential treatment services for over 200 probationers with substance abuse disorders annually, thereby saving the State over $2.6 million in prison costs each year.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.