AN ACT to ALLOW the north carolina partnership for children, INc., TO RETAIN UNEXPENDED FUNDS for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Session Law 2008‑107 is amended by adding a new section to read:
"ALLOW SMART START TO RETAIN UNEXPENDED FUNDS
SECTION 10.6A. Funds appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development, for the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., and allocated to local partnerships for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year that are unexpended shall remain available to the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., to reallocate to local partnerships."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 143B‑168.15 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(h)	State funds allocated to local partnerships that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall remain available to the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., to reallocate to local partnerships."
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of July, 2008.

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		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2008