A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FOR PARENTING PROGRAMS TO PREVENT PREGNANT AND PARENTING STUDENTS FROM DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of one million one hundred seventy‑eight thousand dollars ($1,178,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year and the sum of one million one hundred seventy‑eight thousand dollars ($1,178,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year for parenting programs that prevent pregnant and parenting students from dropping out of school.  These funds shall be used to accomplish each of the following:
(1)	Increase individual local grants from forty‑seven thousand nine hundred eighty dollars ($47,980) to sixty‑five thousand dollars ($65,000).
(2)	Implement 10 new programs or grants for counties with the highest teen birth rates and the highest dropout rates.
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.