GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
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HOUSE BILL 464

 
 
Short Title:	AIDS Prevention Funds.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Wright;  Wainwright and Hackney.	
Referred to:	Appropriations.	
March 5, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to increase efforts for the prevention of HIV/AIDS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Health, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2001‑ 2002 fiscal year and the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year for community‑based intervention efforts to combat the AIDS/HIV epidemic.  Funds appropriated under this section shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$300,000 each fiscal year to increase, by over 600,000 persons, the capacity of existing community‑based organizations to provide outreach services to individuals at risk for HIV/AIDS.
(2)	$300,000 each fiscal year to increase the capacity of local health departments in counties where increased community‑based organization efforts occur for the examination and treatment of persons referred by the community‑based organizations and to establish alternate counseling and testing sites that are based either at the local health department or at the community‑based organization; and
(3)	$400,000 each fiscal year to provide funding for the development of new community‑based organizations to provide outreach and referral services for persons at risk for HIV/AIDS. The primary focus of no fewer than one‑half of the community‑based organizations developed with funds allocated by this subdivision shall be services to racial and ethnic minority populations across the State.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.