A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to Safer Communities ministry.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to Safer Communities Ministry, Inc., a nonprofit organization, the sum of one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year to support the organization's Life Skills Program and other programs utilized to reduce offender recidivism for program participants in the Town of Monroe and surrounding areas.
SECTION 1.(b)  Safer Communities Ministry shall track participants who complete the Life Skills Program to determine the recidivism rate of those who complete the program and report the results to House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety by June 30, 2010.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.