A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIAtE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, TO SUPPORT THE TASC PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services, the sum of two million seven hundred twenty thousand dollars ($2,720,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of two million seven hundred twenty thousand dollars ($2,720,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to support the Treatment Alternatives to Street Crimes (TASC) program to meet the substance abuse and mental health needs for the offender population throughout the State.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.