A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT NORTH CAROLINA NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS FOR PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE DENTAL CARE for special care populations.
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 Public Health, the sum of nine hundred seventy‑seven thousand five  hundred one dollars ($977,501) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one million two hundred twenty‑eight thousand thirty‑five dollars ($1,228,035) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$357,408 for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and $456,552 for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year. These funds shall be allocated to Access Dental Care, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to provide dental services in 10 counties in the Piedmont area of the State.
(2)	$357,408 for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and $456,552 for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year. These funds shall be allocated to Carolinas Health Care/Carolinas Mobile Dentistry, Charlotte, to provide dental services in three counties in the Piedmont area of the State.
(3)	$178,704 for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and $228,276 for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year. These funds shall be allocated to Access Dental Care, Inc., to add a dental services program in Asheville, Greenville, or the Triangle. Access Dental Care, Inc., shall select the community from Request for Proposals submitted to Access Dental Care, Inc., based on established criteria.
(4)	$83,981 for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and $86,655 for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year. These funds shall be allocated for program evaluations in cooperation with the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.