GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

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HOUSE BILL 998*
Senate Appropriations Committee Substitute Adopted 9/28/98

Short Title:  Federal Match Required-9/30/98.	(Public)

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April 17, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO MATCH FEDERAL FUNDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

CURRENT OPERATIONS APPROPRIATION/GENERAL FUND
Section 1.  Appropriations from the General Fund of the State for the maintenance of the State departments, institutions, and agencies, and for other purposes as enumerated are made for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999, according to the schedule that follows.

Current Operations - General Fund	1998-99

Department of Crime Control and Public
Safety – Matching Funds for the National
Guard Tarheel Challenge Program	$    542,000 NR

Department of Natural Resources and
Community Development
01.	Federal Wastewater Assistance –
Matching Funds	4,860,532 NR
02.	Federal Water Supply Assistance –
Matching Funds	2,571,880 NR
TOTAL – Department of Natural Resources
and Community Development	7,432,412 NR

TOTAL: Current Operations - General Fund	$7,974,412 NR

CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS/GENERAL FUND
Section 2.  Appropriations are made from the General Fund of the State for the 1998-99 fiscal year for use by the State departments, institutions, and agencies to provide for capital improvement projects according to the following schedule:

Capital Improvements - General Fund
	1998-99
Department of Administration, Reserve for
State Veterans Nursing Home – Salisbury
Renovation of a 100-bed nursing care unit	$1,000,000

Department of Environment and Natural Resources
01.	State Match-Water Resources Projects – Funds
for the State share of federal civil works
projects	$5,240,000

02.	Channel Widening/Deepening-Wilmington Port –
Funds to improve navigation for shipping terminals
and industries	$4,800,000

03.	B. Everett Jordan Lake Water Supply–match for
federal funds for the project in prior fiscal years	110,000

TOTAL: Capital Improvements - General Fund	$10,150,000

AUTHORIZE TRANSFER TO MEET TANF MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT REQUIREMENTS
Section 3.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, to the extent necessary to meet federal maintenance of effort requirements for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Department of Health and Human Services may, for the first quarter of the 1998-99 fiscal year only, use State funds for the TANF Work First Family Assistance.

APPROVE WELFARE TO WORK FORMULA GRANT PLAN AND APPROPRIATE FUNDS THEREFOR
Section 4. (a)	Section 12.20A(b) of S.S. 1997-443, reads as rewritten:
"(b) The Department of Commerce, the Employment Security Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services shall develop a plan to implement the Welfare-to-Work initiative in this State, develop performance goals and measures for this initiative, and estimate the cost impact on the State budget for the next five years of implementing the initiative.  The Department of Commerce, the Employment Security Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services shall report to the General Assembly its findings and recommendations by April 1, 1998.  "
(b)	There is appropriated to the Department of Commerce from federal Welfare to Work Block Grant funds for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1999 the sum of twenty-five million three hundred thirty-two thousand one hundred seventy-three dollars ($25,332,173).  The Office of State Budget and Management may identify potential sources of State and local funds that may be used as a match for the federal Welfare-to-Work Block Grant.

WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FUNDS
Section 5.  (a)	The Department of Environment and Natural Resources shall allocate the funds appropriated in this act for water resources development projects to the following projects whose estimated costs are as indicated:

Name of Project

1.	Morehead City Harbor Turning Basin	$ 2,000,000

2.	Wilmington Harbor Maintenance Dredging	200,000

3.	Wilmington Harbor Long-Term Disposal	1,400,000

4.	Beaufort Harbor Maintenance Dredging	80,000

5.	Manteo Shallowbag Bay Maintenance Dredging	200,000

6.	Rollinson Channel Maintenance Dredging 
  (Dare County)	400,000

8.	Pine Knolls Shores Protection (Carteret Co.)	200,000

9.	Tar River Road Streambank Protection	50,000
  (City of Greenville)

10.	Battery Island Bird Habitat Restoration	140,000
  (Brunswick County)

11.	Dare County Beaches Feasibility Study	70,000

12.	Deep Creek Watershed Project (Yadkin Co.)	500,000

Total	$ 5,240,000
(b)	Where the actual costs are different from the estimated costs under subsection (a) of this section, the Department may adjust the allocations among projects as needed.  If any projects listed in subsection (a) of this section are delayed and the budgeted State funds cannot be used during the 1998-99 fiscal year, or if the projects listed in subsection (a) of this section are accomplished at a lower cost, the Department may use the resulting fund availability to fund any of the following:
(1)	Corps of Engineers project feasibility studies.
(2)	Corps of Engineers projects whose schedules have advanced and require State matching funds in fiscal year 1998-99.
(3)	State-local water resources development projects.
Funds not expended or encumbered for these purposes shall revert to the General Fund at the end of the 1999-2000 fiscal year.
(c)	The Department shall make quarterly reports on the use of these funds to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, the Fiscal Research Division, and the Office of State Budget and Management.  Each report shall include all of the following:
(1)	All projects listed in this section.
(2)	The estimated cost of each project.
(3)	The date that work on each project began or is expected to begin.
(4)	The date that work on each project was completed or is expected to be completed.
(5)	The actual cost of each project.
The quarterly reports shall also show those projects advanced in schedule, those projects delayed in schedule, and an estimate of the amount of funds expected to revert to the General Fund.

CARING PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN
Section 6. G.S. 108A-70.18(8), as enacted by Section 1 of S.L. 1998-1 Extra Session, reads as rewritten:
"(8)	"Uninsured”means the applicant for Program benefits was not covered under any private or employer-sponsored comprehensive health insurance plan for the six-month period immediately preceding the date of application for Program benefits. Effective April 1, 1999, "uninsured”means the applicant is and was not covered under any private or employer-sponsored comprehensive health insurance plan for 60 days immediately preceding the date of application. The waiting periods required under this subdivision shall be waived if the child has been enrolled in Medicaid and has lost Medicaid eligibility, has lost health care benefits due to cessation of a nonprofit organization program that provides health care benefits to low-income children, or has lost employer-sponsored comprehensive health care coverage due to termination of employment, cessation by the employer of employer-sponsored health coverage, or cessation of the employer's business."

MOST TEXT APPLIES ONLY TO 1998-99
Section 7.  Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 1998-99 fiscal year, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 1998-99 fiscal year.

Requested by:  Senators Plyler, Perdue, Odom
1997-98 APPROPRIATIONS LIMITATIONS AND DIRECTIONS APPLY
Section 8.  (a)	Except where expressly repealed or amended by this act, the provisions of S.L. 1997-443, S.L. 1998-1 Extra Session, S.L. 1998-9 and S.L. 1998-23 remain in effect.
(b)	Notwithstanding any modifications by this act in the amounts appropriated, except where expressly repealed or amended, the limitations and directions for the 1998-99 fiscal year in S.L. 1997-443, S.L. 1998-1 Extra Session, S.L. 1998-9, and S.L. 1998-23 that applied to appropriations to particular agencies or for particular purposes apply to the newly enacted appropriations of this act for those same particular purposes.

EFFECT OF HEADINGS
Section 9.  The headings to the sections of this act are a convenience to the reader and are for reference only.  The headings do not expand, limit, or define the text of this act, 
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
Section 10.  If any section or provision of this act is declared unconstitutional or invalid by the courts, it does not affect the validity of this act as a whole or any part other than the part so declared to be unconstitutional or invalid.

EFFECTIVE DATE
Section 11.  Except as otherwise provided, this act becomes effective July 1, 1998.