GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 864

SENATE BILL 116

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPLEMENTING H.B. 124, INVOLUNTARY OUTPATIENT COMMITMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for fiscal year 1983-84 to the Department of Human Resources for the purpose of implementing the Outpatient Involuntary Commitment Program (H.B. 124).  The funds shall be allocated to area programs on a projected outpatient commitment caseload and area programs shall be reimbursed prospectively on a subsidy not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) per year per case.  The Department may allocate no more than ten percent (10%) of the funds for administrative costs.

Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for fiscal year 1983-84 to the Administrative Office of the Courts for the purpose of implementing the Outpatient Involuntary Commitment Program (H.B. 124).  The funds shall be allocated by the Director to cover costs related to the development and printing of forms, training of clerks and other costs directly related to the implementation of H.B. 124.

Sec. 3.  Section 26 of Chapter 638, Session Laws of 1983, is repealed.

Sec. 4.  Section 27 of Chapter 638, Session Laws of 1983, is amended by deleting the words:  "Except as provided in Section 26, this", and inserting in lieu thereof "This".

Sec. 5.  The Director of the Budget is authorized to make available to the Health Systems Agencies up to three hundred sixty thousand dollars ($360,000) of the funds appropriated to the Department of Human Resources for the 1983-84 fiscal year.

Sec. 6.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of July, 1983.