NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1169

HOUSE BILL 1320

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO ESTABLISH A STUDY FOR THE LOCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  The State Board of Education is hereby authorized and directed to establish a study of the needs for comprehensive vocational rehabilitation centers in North Carolina and to initiate plans for the location, establishment and development of such centers, giving emphasis to provision of such medical, psychological, social and vocational assistance as will aid persons having physical handicaps to achieve adjustment to productive community living.

Sec. 2.  The State Department of Mental Health, the State Board of Health, the Department of Community Colleges and other state agencies and departments having programs of direct effect upon physically handicapped persons shall render such assistance in making these studies as the State Board of Education may request.

Sec. 3.  There is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund, in addition to the other appropriations, to the State Board of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, for the biennium 1969-71, the sum of eight thousand dollars ($8,000.00) for each fiscal year to be expended by the State Board of Education, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, for the purposes of this Act, together with such other funds from the Federal or other non-state sources as may be available.

Sec. 4.  The Board of Education shall prepare a report, and recommendations made pursuant to the study hereby authorized, to be presented to the Governor upon completion and to the General Assembly of 1971.

Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  This Act shall be effective July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1969.