A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention for the local juvenile crime prevention councils throughout the state, as recommended by the joint legislative study commission on children and youth.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year to be allocated to the local Juvenile Crime Prevention Councils. The funds shall be allocated based on the population of the counties served by the Councils and shall be used to continue to implement juvenile justice reform and provide for early intervention and prevention of juvenile crime and delinquency. These funds shall be in addition to the amount appropriated in the continuation budget for local Juvenile Crime Prevention Councils.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.