NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1235

SENATE BILL 1077

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE THERAPEUTIC WILDERNESS CAMPS TO FISCAL YEAR 1980-81.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Central Administration, for fiscal year 1980-81 the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) for the Therapeutic Wilderness Camps. These funds shall be placed in a reserve, and an amount of up to three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) may be expended from the reserve only after the Director of the Budget determines that the contract amendments listed in Section 2 of this act have been executed by the Department of Human Resources and the representatives of the Jack and Ruth Eckerd Foundation by September 1, 1980.

Sec. 2.  The contract between the Department of Human Resources and the Jack and Ruth Eckerd Foundation must be amended to include the following before funds can be released under Section 1 of this act:

(1)        increase the minimum average daily population in the four camps from 140 children to 224 children;

(2)        reimbursement shall be computed as a cost per day, per child;

(3)        no out-of-state placements shall be made to the four therapeutic camps until all North Carolina children on the waiting list have been served. No out-of-state placements shall be made in the four camps without the prior approval of the Secretary of Human Resources.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1980.