NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1290

HOUSE BILL 1739

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE UNC SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TO CONTINUE SUPPORT FOR THE TEACCH PROGRAM FOR AUTISTIC PERSONS, AND TO AMEND THE AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION FOR THE PROGRAM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Section 4 of Chapter 1007, Session Laws of 1971, is repealed.

Sec. 2.  Section 3 of Chapter 1007, Session Laws of 1971, is amended by deleting the word "children" each of the three places it appears and inserting in lieu thereof in each place the words "children and adults".

Sec. 3.  The first sentence of Section 3 of Chapter 1007, Session Laws of 1971, is amended by adding the following new language immediately before the period: ", including consultation to the existing four group homes".

Sec. 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to The University of North Carolina School of Medicine for fiscal year 1980-81 the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) for program support of the Institute for the Treatment and Education for Autistic and Related Communications Handicapped Children.

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1980.