GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2025

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SENATE BILL 98

Short Title:      Funds for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senators Hise and Burgin (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:	Rules and Operations of the Senate

February 17, 2025

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds for dolly parton's imagination library.

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 one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in recurring funds for each year of the 2025‑2027 fiscal biennium to be allocated to the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, an early literacy program that mails age‑appropriate books to registered children on a monthly basis.

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2025.