A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services TO CREATE A BENEFIT BANK IN THE STATE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) to be a host site of the Benefit Bank, an Internet‑based system that connects communities and their residents to public benefits available to them, such as access to information about the Food Services program, Medicaid, and other public assistance programs.  These funds shall be used for programming and networking essential to successful implementation of the Benefit Bank.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.