A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to be used for grants to pitt county for an innovative court pilot program and a pretrial release program and to require related reporting.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in nonrecurring funds in fiscal year 2020‑2021 to provide a grant to Pitt County to use for an innovative court pilot program.
SECTION 1.(b)  The Administrative Office of the Courts, in conjunction with Pitt County, shall report to the chairs of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety by March 1, 2021, on the results of the innovative court pilot program funded by this section.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in nonrecurring funds in fiscal year 2020‑2021 to provide a grant to Pitt County for pretrial release services.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2020.