GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION
CHAPTER 845
Whereas, Lutheran Family Services in North Carolina, Inc., has been providing residential child care continuously since March 1, 1978; and
Whereas, Lutheran Family Services presently provides residential care to 144 children in 21 counties in the State of North Carolina; and
Whereas, during 1982 an average of 43 children per day in the care of Lutheran Family Services would have been eligible under the grants-in-aid formula; and
Whereas, the recommended 1983-85 Base Budget appropriation for grants-in-aid to private child-caring institutions includes three thousand five hundred fifty-nine dollars and twenty cents ($3,559.20) for each of the 827 eligible children; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. In addition to any other funds appropriated for this purpose by law, there is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources the sum of one hundred fifty-three thousand forty-six dollars ($153,046) for fiscal year 1983-84 for the purpose of including Lutheran Family Services in North Carolina, Inc., as a private child-caring institution receiving a State grant-in-aid.
Sec. 2. The funds appropriated in Section 1 shall be paid by the Department of Human Resources to Lutheran Family Services in North Carolina, Inc., according to the applicable provisions of Title 10 of the North Carolina Administrative Code, pertaining to the payment of grants-in-aid to private child- caring institutions.
Sec. 3. Any future request for a grant-in-aid to Lutheran Family Services in North Carolina, Inc., shall be submitted along with the requests of the other eligible private child-caring institutions according to the provisions of G.S. 143B-139.2.
Sec. 4. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of July, 1983.