NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 845

SENATE BILL 384

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE A PROGRAM TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL RETARDATION IN THIS STATE AND TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  The appropriations set forth in Section 2 of this Act are made to the various State institutions, agencies and departments for a cooperative program of dealing with the problem of mental retardation in this State and shall be spent for the general purposes hereinafter set forth, as follows:

(a)        The appropriation of three hundred ninety thousand dollars ($390,000.00) for the fiscal year 1963-1964 shall be used and expended for the capital improvement of establishing a Child Development Center including inpatient facilities for emotionally disturbed children, and said appropriation is made to the University of North Carolina for this purpose and for any structure, building or addition to an existing building and for the purpose of training medical students and residents in the diagnosis and treatment of mental retardation.

(b)        The appropriation of two hundred forty thousand, six hundred dollars ($240,600.00) as appropriated and referred to in Section 2 of this Act is made to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and shall be expended for the establishment of a training program for teachers who will teach retarded children in our public school programs.

(c)        The appropriation of one hundred fifty-five thousand, nine hundred sixty dollars ($155,960.00) appropriated and referred to in Section 2 of this Act is made to Murdoch School and shall be expended for a training institute or a training program at said School to train both specialists and non-specialists for work with the retarded and for the purpose of assuring a supply of competent personnel for institutional and community programs.

(d)        The appropriation of one hundred ninety thousand dollars ($190,000.00) as appropriated and designated in Section 2 of this Act and made to the State Board of Education shall be expended in the amounts designated in establishing a teachers' scholarship program at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for the biennium for the purpose of attracting teachers to the training of education for the retarded and for training teachers in the use of different techniques from those involved in teaching normal children. The amount of ninety thousand dollars ($90,000.00) is to be expended in the employment of a curriculum specialist in the area of mental retardation, in the development of a curriculum library and in providing an adequate supply of special textbooks for the retarded children in North Carolina.

(e)        An appropriation of two hundred twenty-two thousand dollars ($222,000.00) as made and designated in Section 2 of this Act is appropriated to the Hospitals Board of Control to provide vocational training which will enable trainable and educable retarded persons to become productive, useful citizens, and this appropriation is over and above the amount already requested by the Hospitals Board of Control for a vocational rehabilitation program. In connection with this same program there is appropriated, as set out in Section 2 of this Act, two hundred thirty thousand, ninety-two dollars ($230,092.00) which is made to the State Board of Education to be administered and expended by the Department of Public Instruction to establish a vocational rehabilitation program in all of our residential schools for the retarded and permit the creation of rehabilitation houses and the establishment of vocational rehabilitation centers in communities and make possible the employment of additional rehabilitation counsellors for work with retarded persons in the community.

(f)         The appropriation of three hundred fifty-four thousand dollars($354,000.00) made in Section 2 of this Act to the State Board of Health shall be expended for the purpose of identifying and evaluating retarded persons and to establish and operate during the biennium three Evaluation and Development Clinics spaced geographically around the State so that such facilities are reasonably accessible to all persons in North Carolina wherever they may live.

(g)        The appropriation provided for in Section 2 of this Act in the amount of forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) is made to the Council on Mental Retardation and shall be spent by such Council in continuing the study of State-wide problems of mental retardation and to coordinate the attack by all State and private organizations on this problem.

(h)        The Department of Administration is hereby authorized to revise the State budget to reflect and show these appropriations made to these various agencies and institutions on a line item basis or in such other manner as will accord with budgetary practices.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State, or from any other available funds of the State, in the amounts for the objects and purposes hereinafter set forth in this Section, and as explained and amplified in Section 1 of this Act, and to the agencies and institutions set forth below, the various sums and amounts as enumerated below and for the two (2) fiscal years ending June 30, 1964, and ending June 30, 1965, respectively, according to the following schedule:

University of North Carolina:

Center for Mental Retardation                                          1963-1964                       1964-1965

(Capital Improvement)                                                   $390,000                          $

Training Institute for Teachers                                           120,600                            120,000

Murdoch School

Training Institute                                                                 77,980                              77,980

Board of Education

Curriculum Services                                                           45,000                              45,000

Teacher Scholarship                                                           50,000                              50,000

Hospitals Board of Control

Vocational Rehabilitation                                                    99,000                            123,000

Department of Public Instruction

Vocational Rehabilitation                                                    93,364                            136,728

State Board of Health

Evaluation and Development Clinics                                  177,000                            177,000

Advisory Council on Mental Retardation                             20,000                              20,000

Sec. 3.  The Director of the Budget upon recommendation of the Advisory Budget Commission is empowered to authorize transfers and changes from appropriations made in this Act within the appropriations made to each agency.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 12th day of June, 1963.