A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE PREVENTION OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCIES AND THE PREVENTION OF SCHOOL DROPOUT DUE TO ADOLESCENT PREGNANCIES.
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 one million one hundred seventy‑eight thousand dollars ($1,178,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to parenting programs that keep pregnant and parenting students from dropping out of school.  The funds shall be used to increase individual local grants ranging from forty-seven thousand nine hundred eighty dollars ($47,980) to sixty‑five thousand dollars ($65,000) and to provide for 10 new programs or grants to counties with the highest teen birth rates and the highest dropout rates.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.