A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to restore funding to the Department of health and human services, division of child development and early education, for various programs affecting early childhood education and care.
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 and Early Education, the sum of fifty‑two million eight hundred twenty‑three thousand two hundred forty‑one dollars ($52,823,241) for the 2012‑2013 fiscal year to restore funding to the following programs in the following amounts:
(1)	North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc.		$18,184,601.
(2)	NC Pre‑K program 					$25,000,000.
(3)	Child care subsidy funds for postsecondary education	$  7,052,797.
(4)	Child care subsidy funds for transportation services	$  1,001,718.
(5)	NC R.E.A.C.H. scholarship funds			$  1,584,125.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2012.