A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the marketing association for rehabilitation centers, Inc., (MARC), a nonprofit corporation, to purchase capital equipment and for other purposes.
Whereas, the Marketing Association of Rehabilitation Centers (MARC) provides vocational training and manufacturing jobs for almost 1,500 adults with physical or mental disabilities in 23 counties in Western North Carolina through 11 nonprofit businesses; and
Whereas, MARC has developed a Custom Medical Products initiative that will allow its members to manufacture custom disposable surgical drapes; and
Whereas, this initiative expects to create 250 new jobs, mainly for disabled workers, in some of the region's small rural communities; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to Marketing Association for Rehabilitation Centers, Inc., (MARC), a nonprofit organization serving a 23‑county region of Western North Carolina, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to purchase capital equipment, make facility upgrades, and offset administrative start‑up costs for its Custom Medical Products Initiative.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.