A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR PREVENT BLINDNESS, inc.
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 three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to Prevent Blindness, Inc., in the following amounts:
(1)	$150,000 to provide vision screening for children enrolled in the More at Four program, Head Start, or Title 1 Pre‑K.
(2)	$150,000 to support critical needs in the Kenneth Royall Vision Screening Program to meet additional demands for training and materials resulting from increased early childhood vision screening requirements.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.