FILED SENATE
Apr 1, 2021
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
S.B. 485
SESSION 2021 PRINCIPAL CLERK
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SENATE BILL DRS45237-NDa-36A
Short Title: Fund Drug Treatment/Mental Health Courts. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Mohammed, Foushee, and Robinson (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO CREATE AND SUPPORT LOCAL DRUG TREATMENT COURT PROGRAMS
3 AND MENTAL HEALTH COURT PROGRAMS AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS.
4 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
5 SECTION 1. There is appropriated the sum of four million two hundred thousand
6 dollars ($4,200,000) in recurring funds for each fiscal year of the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium
7 from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts to be used to support the work
8 of the North Carolina Drug Treatment Court Program in creating and sustaining local drug
9 treatment court programs.
10 SECTION 2. There is appropriated the sum of four million two hundred thousand
11 dollars ($4,200,000) in recurring funds for each fiscal year of the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium
12 from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts to be used to facilitate the
13 creation and funding of new and existing mental health court programs to serve individuals that
14 have a mental health diagnosis or treatment history and are defendants in the criminal justice
15 system. Among other functions, the local mental health court programs funded by this section
16 shall recommend mental health treatment plans for individuals served by the programs and shall
17 monitor the progress of the individuals receiving treatment while the individuals remain in the
18 program.
19 SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2021.
*DRS45237-NDa-36A*