NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1035

SENATE BILL 810

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DIVISION OF PRISONS, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUING A PROGRAM OF EDUCATION FOR PRISONERS AND FOR THEIR REHABILITATION.

 

Whereas, with the use of federal funds and private funds which are no longer available, there has been established and administered by The University of North Carolina‑Chapel Hill, Extension Division, under the title "Econo-College for Inmates" at the Orange County Correctional Center, Hillsborough, North Carolina; and

Whereas, the program which has been carried on as aforesaid has proven to be beneficial and of significant rehabilitative value for qualified persons in prison; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund or from any other unencumbered funds or balances the sum of twenty-nine thousand dollars ($29,000) in fiscal year 1977-1978 and the sum of thirty-two thousand dollars ($32,000) in fiscal year 1978‑1979 to the Division of Prisons of the Department of Correction to maintain during the biennium the educational program and service heretofore and currently being administered by The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Extension Division, at the Orange County Correctional Center, Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Sec. 2.  The funds hereby appropriated shall be used and expended by the Division of Prisons, Department of Correction, for the purpose of paying the costs of maintaining and administering said program, including such tuition or other costs as may be necessary to be paid to The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Extension Division.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1977.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.