A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to provide a fifty percent match for participating counties to establish new quality assurance positions for child welfare services within county social services offices.
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 Social Services (Division), the sum of one million seven hundred twenty‑five thousand five hundred dollars ($1,725,500) recurring for each year of the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium to provide a fifty percent (50%) match for participating counties to establish new quality assurance positions for child welfare within county social services offices in the State. The Division shall allocate the positions funded pursuant to this section based on a percentage of county population such that (i) counties having at least one percent (1%) of the State's population each shall receive one position and (ii) counties having less than one percent (1%) of the State's population shall share a position, as determined by the Division. The Division shall implement a comprehensive continuous quality improvement (CQI) training plan that provides all staff, new and existing, with introductory and ongoing training on the Division's CQI plan, policies, and requirements that provide clarity regarding staff and stakeholder roles in the CQI process.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.