NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

CHAPTER 949

HOUSE BILL 186

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO EMPLOY CHAPLAINS IN THE DIVISION OF YOUTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES.

Whereas, for those desiring it, moral and religious counseling has been found to be of significant rehabilitative value for boys and girls in training schools; and

Whereas, religious freedom is guaranteed by the Constitutions of the United States and of North Carolina; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  The Department of Human Resources is authorized and directed to employ clinical chaplains to provide moral, religious and social counseling to boys and girls committed to the training schools of the Division of Human Resources. The Department of Human Resources shall seek to employ a diversity of qualified persons having differing faiths which are to the extent practical reflective of the professed religious composition of the student population of the Youth Services' training schools.

Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund the sum of twenty‑nine thousand seven hundred dollars ($29,700) for the fiscal year 1977-78 and the sum of forty-two thousand seven hundred eighty-seven dollars ($42,787) for the fiscal year 1978-79 to be used by the Department of Human Resources, Division of Youth Services.

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.