A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide expansion, MAINTENANCE, and start‑up grant funds for existing and newly created county jail or detention center treatment programs that are currently using or will use non‑opioid, long‑acting, injectable treatment regimens for inmates suffering from alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, or both, with a priority in grant distribution to go to Forsyth, Nash, New Hanover, Onslow, and Rutherford counties and to appropriate funds.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety, Governor's Crime Commission (Commission) the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year to be used to help expand, maintain, or establish the use of non‑opioid, long‑acting, injectable medication regimens as treatment for alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, or both, as a part of reentry treatment programs in county jails or detention centers in North Carolina. Any newly created alcohol or opioid addiction treatment programs may be similar to the DATA Program of Forsyth County.
Counties must submit grant proposals to the Commission no later than October 1, 2019. No grant may be for more than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), and the Commission shall distribute the grants with priority being given to Forsyth, Nash, New Hanover, Onslow, and Rutherford counties. The Commission shall establish a schedule by which each county that receives a grant must submit results related to the effectiveness of the non‑opioid alcohol dependence or opioid dependence treatment programs. The Commission shall report the results to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety no later than December 1, 2020.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.