A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for the child care subsidy 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 Child Development, the sum of twenty‑three million dollars ($23,000,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year. These funds shall be used to serve an additional 6,000 children currently on the child care subsidy waiting list and to adjust child care provider subsidy rates. The rate adjustment modifies the rates for child care providers in three‑, four‑, and five‑star facilities to sixty percent (60%) of the difference between the 1997 and 2005 market rates.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.