North Carolina HB 1889: CASTLE/Funds.

Status: Passed 1st Reading (as of 2010-05-20)

State: North Carolina · Session: 2009 · Bill: HB 1889

Subjects: APPROPRIATIONS, BUDGETING, COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES, DHHS, DISABLED PERSONS, EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, MINORS, PUBLIC, PUBLIC HEALTH, UNC, REP. INSKO

Sponsors: Insko, Glazier, Gulley, Harrison, Hughes, Lucas, Pierce, Weiss

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
H 1
HOUSE BILL 1889*

Short Title: CASTLE/Funds. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Insko, Lucas (Primary Sponsors); Glazier, Gulley, Harrison,
Hughes, Pierce, and Weiss.
Referred to: Appropriations.
May 20, 2010
*H1889-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 2
HUMAN SERVICES, DIVISION OF PUBLIC HEALTH, TO ASSIST DEAF CHILDREN 3
WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS TO DEVELOP SPOKEN LANGUAGE. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 6
Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, the sum of five hundred seventy-five 7
thousand dollars ($575,000) in recurring funds for the 2010-2011 fiscal year for the Carolina 8
Children's Communicative Disorders Program of The University of North Carolina Health Care 9
System. These funds shall be used to support the Center for the Acquisition of Spoken 10
Language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE) in training teachers and therapists across 11
the State to work with deaf preschool-age children with cochlear implants and to provide oral 12
preschool classes to these children. 13
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2010. 14

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