A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT ELECTING COUNTIES WILL BE HELD HARMLESS FOR WORK FIRST FAMILY ASSISTANCE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 108A‑27.11(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	Each Electing County's allocation for Work First Family Assistance shall be computed based on the percentage of each Electing County's total expenditures for cash assistance to statewide actual expenditures for cash assistance in 1995‑96. The resulting percentage shall be applied to the federal TANF block grant funds appropriated for cash assistance by the General Assembly each fiscal year. As with Standard Counties, Electing Counties shall be held harmless in the 2008-2009 fiscal year for Work First Family Assistance up to the actual TANF/Work First Family Assistance block grant allocation for fiscal year 2007‑2008. The Department shall transmit the federal funds contained in the county block grants to Electing Counties as soon as practicable after they become available to the State and in accordance with federal cash management laws and regulations."
SECTION 2.  This act applies to Beaufort, Caldwell, Catawba, Iredell, Lenoir, Lincoln, Macon, and Wilson counties only.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.