A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the women at risk program.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to continue funding for Women at Risk at the same level as that provided in the 2007‑2008 budget. Women at Risk is a community‑based treatment program serving female offenders at risk of incarceration and their families.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to provide additional funding for Women at Risk to expand substance abuse and mental health treatment to more at‑risk female offenders in 10 targeted Western North Carolina counties: Buncombe, Henderson, McDowell, Rutherford, Yancey, Madison, Haywood, Jackson, Transylvania, and Polk.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.