NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 645

HOUSE BILL 935

 

 

AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE LIMITATIONS ON ELIGIBILITY FOR STATE FOSTER HOME FUND BENEFITS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 108-66(b) as it presently appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes is renumbered as G.S. 108-66(c).

Sec. 2.  G.S. 108-66 as the same appears in the 1971 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new subsection (b) as follows:

"(b)      No benefits provided by this section shall be granted to any needy individual who has passed his eighteenth birthday unless he is less than 21 years of age and is regularly attending and successfully pursuing a course of study leading to a high school diploma or its equivalent; a course of study at the college level; or a course of vocational or technical training designed to fit him for gainful employment."

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 22nd day of May, 1973.