NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1227

HOUSE BILL 1433

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT MONIES APPROPRIATED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH TO FUND GRANTS-IN-AID PROGRAMS PROVIDING THAT DAY-CARE AND SHELTERED WORKSHOP SERVICES TO MENTALLY RETARDED BE EXPENDED IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO OBTAIN MAXIMUM BENEFITS FROM AVAILABLE GOVERNMENTAL OR PRIVATE PROGRAMS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Department of Mental Health with the approval of the Council on Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities is hereby authorized and directed to expend any monies appropriated for the purpose of funding subsidy or grant-in-aid programs providing day care or sheltered workshop services from non-profit facilities to severely or moderately mentally retarded individuals in such a manner as to obtain, in so far as is practicable and expedient, the maximum monetary participation or assistance available from any appropriate federal or other program. Provided that such funds shall not be expended in any manner which will result in fewer individuals receiving services from such programs than received such services during fiscal year 1970, and that no eligible person will receive less than $40.00 monthly grant-in-aid from the combination of all funds. Any additional funds generated from appropriate federal or other programs shall be used to provide additional services to severely or moderately mentally retarded individuals.

Sec. 1.1.  The funds herein shall be applied to the mentally retarded and developmentally handicapped in sheltered environments and day care facilities and for the mentally retarded and developmentally handicapped children below the age of six years in a licensed non-profit residential facility. Said facilities shall be selected by the Department of Mental Health to provide more adequately for the mentally retarded in the community, and to encourage care for those persons near their families. The funds herein shall be administered through the Department of Mental Health with the approval of the Council on Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to only State-licensed day care facilities and residential facilities.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.