NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1239

SENATE BILL 1082

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PERSONAL NEEDS ALLOWANCE OF RECIPIENTS OF SPECIAL ASSISTANCE FOR ADULTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Social Services three hundred seventy-nine thousand dollars ($379,000) for fiscal year 1980-81. These funds shall be used by the division to increase the personal needs allowance of recipients of Special Assistance for Adults who reside in domiciliary care facilities by three dollars ($3.00) per month.

Sec. 2.  The full cost of the increase in the personal needs allowance as provided in Section 1 shall be borne by the State of North Carolina. No additional cost shall be incurred by counties as a result of this increase.

Sec. 3.  Chapter 1137 of the 1979 Session Laws is amended in Sec. 58.1 by inserting the following sentence at the end of the first sentence of the second paragraph ending in the words "per month.": "Two dollars ($2.00) per month for each recipient of special assistance for adults who reside in domiciliary care shall be used to increase the personal needs allowance."

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1980.

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