NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1030

HOUSE BILL 911

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH FOR GRANTS-IN-AID TO PROVIDE DAY CARE AND RESIDENTIAL CARE FOR CERTAIN MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the State to the Department of Mental Health the sum of one hundred forty-eight thousand dollars ($148,000.00) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1967, and ending June 30, 1968, and the sum of two hundred forty thousand dollars ($240,000.00) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1968, and ending June 30, 1969, to be expended to provide a monthly grant-in-aid or subsidy of forty dollars ($40.00) per person to be paid to a day care facility for moderately or severely retarded children, and one hundred twenty dollars ($120.00) monthly per person for moderately or severely retarded children aged six years or less in a licensed nonprofit residential facility, not State supported. Said facilities shall be selected by the Department of Mental Health to provide more adequately for the mentally retarded in the community, and to encourage care for those persons near their families. The funds herein shall be administered through the Department of Mental Health to only State licensed day care facilities and residential facilities licensed by the Department of Mental Health.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the State to the Department of Mental Health the sum of forty-one thousand four hundred twenty dollars ($41,420.00) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1967, and ending June 30, 1968, and the sum of forty-one thousand four hundred twenty dollars ($41,420.00) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1968, and ending June 30, 1969, to be expended for additional personnel to administer and supervise the grants-in-aid program.

                                                                                                1967-68           1968-69

1 Social Work Supervisor II @ $8,424                                      $ 8,424            $ 8,424

1 Social Work Supervisor I @ $7,656                                          7,656               7,656

1 Nurse Supervisor I @ $4,980                                                    4,980               4,980

1 Budget Officer I @ $8,424                                                        8,424               8,424

1 Stenographer II @ $3,936                                                         3,936               3,936

Travel Expense                                                                              8,000               8,000

$41,420           $41,420

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1967.