A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to reinvest funds saved from Justice reinvestment in robeson and lenoir counties as a model program for the state.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for the 2013‑2014 fiscal year and the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars ($750,000) for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year to provide contractual services in Robeson and Lenoir Counties that will provide persons on probation and post‑release supervision with evidence‑based vocational and educational opportunities, housing, on‑the‑job training, job placement, substance abuse treatment, counseling, and mental health services to lower recidivism and improve reentry services.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2013.