A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase reimbursement to counties for state inmates housed in local confinement facilities.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the  Department of Correction the sum of thirty‑seven million dollars ($37,000,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to raise the per diem reimbursement to counties from eighteen dollars ($18.00) per day to ninety dollars ($90.00) per day for State inmates serving sentences of 30 days or more in local confinement facilities.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.