A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT directing the department of health and human services to increase the personal needs allowance for recipients of state‑county special assistance and appropriating funds to offset the cost of that increase.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  Effective October 1, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services, shall increase the personal needs allowance under the State‑County Special Assistance program from forty‑six dollars ($46.00) per month per recipient to seventy dollars ($70.00) per month per recipient.
SECTION 1.(b)  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services, the sum of two million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($2,250,000) in recurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year and the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) in recurring funds for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year, to offset the cost of increasing the amount of the personal needs allowance under the State County Special Assistance program, as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.