A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize funding for the department of correction to contract with the council of state governments for research and planning needed to advise the general assembly on correctional and prisoner reentry policy in an effort to decrease the prison population and diminish the need for new prison construction.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Of the funds appropriated to the Department of Correction for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) shall be used to contract with the Council of State Governments for research and planning needed to advise the General Assembly on correctional and prisoner reentry policy in an effort to decrease the prison population and diminish the need for new prison construction.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.