A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for division teacch at the university of north carolina at chapel hill.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of three hundred sixty‑eight thousand two hundred dollars ($368,200) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year to be used by Division TEACCH in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$175,902 to expand the TEACCHing at Home pilot program to the Asheville and Wilmington areas. The current program serves Orange County and provides home‑based early intervention services to autistic preschoolers from 18 months to three years of age.
(2)	$142,298 to complete the salary adjustments for therapists working with the TEACCH program.
(3)	$50,000 to support research and program development for the TEACCH Autism Program.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.