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 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
 SESSION 2025
-H 1
-HOUSE BILL 542
+H D
+HOUSE BILL DRH30215-LUa-85
 
 Short Title: Child Care Mental & Behavioral Services/Funds. (Public)
-Sponsors: Representatives Lambeth, Arp, Paré, and Rhyne (Primary Sponsors).
-For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
-Referred to: Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
-March 27, 2025
-*H542-v-1*
+Sponsors: Representative Lambeth.
+Referred to:
+
+*DRH30215-LUa-85*
 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
-AN ACT TO APPROPRIAT E FUNDS TO THE NORTH  CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR 2
-CHILDREN, INC., TO E XPAND MENTAL AND BEH AVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES 3
-FOR CHILDREN, FAMILI ES, AND STAFF IN CHI LD CARE FACILITY SET TINGS 4
-AND TO ESTABLISH THE  NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHIL DREN, 5
+AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR 2
+CHILDREN, INC., TO EXPAND MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES 3
+FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND STAFF IN CHILD  CARE FACILITY SETTINGS 4
+AND TO ESTABLISH THE NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN , 5
 INC., SPECIAL FUND. 6
 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 7
 SECTION 1.(a)  There is appropriated from the ARPA Temporary Savings Fund, 8
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 November 15, 2027. The progress report and final report shall include all of the following: 26
 (1) The name of each local partnership that received funds. 27
 (2) The number of children served by each local partnership. 28
-(3) The types of mental and behavioral health services provided by each local 29
+(3) The types of mental and behavioral health services provided by each  local 29
 partnership. 30
-(4) Recommendations for continuing and/ or expanding mental and behavioral 31
+(4) Recommendations for continuing and/or expanding mental and behavioral 31
 health initiatives for children, families, and staff in child care facility settings. 32
 SECTION 1.(c)   Additional funds allocated in this act to the North Carolina 33
-Partnership for Children, Inc., from the Department of Heal th and Human Services, Division of 34
+Partnership for Children, Inc., from the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of 34
 Child Development and Early Education, for each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium are not 35
+subject to the administrative cost requirements under Section 9D.5(b) of S.L. 2023 -134, child 36
+H.B. 542
+Mar 26, 2025
+HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK
 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025
-Page 2  House Bill 542-First Edition
-subject to the administrative cost requirements under Section 9D.5(b) of S.L. 2023 -134, child 1
-care services funding requirement s under G.S.  143B-168.15(b), child care subsidy expansion 2
-requirements under G.S. 143B-168.15(g), or match requirements under Section 9D.5(d) of S.L. 3
-2023-134. 4
-SECTION 2.  G.S. 143B-168.15(h) reads as rewritten: 5
-"(h) The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., Special Fund is hereby established 6
-as an interest -bearing, nonreverting special fund in the Department of Health and Human 7
-Services. Funds appropriated from the General Fund to the Department for Smart Start and the 8
-North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., (NCPC) shall be deposited in the Fund and shall 9
-be used by the NCPC and local partnership s exclusively for the purposes authorized in this 10
-section, unless otherwise expressly provided by law . State funds allocated to local partnerships 11
-that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available to the 12
-North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., to reallocate to local partnerships. Notwithstanding 13
-G.S. 147-86.11 or any other provision of law to the contrary, the NCPC shall be allowed to hold 14
-cash in excess of incurred expenditures at the end of each fiscal year up to five million dollars 15
-($5,000,000). Not later than August 1 of each year, the NCPC shall provide to the Department of 16
-Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education , a financial 17
-status report for the preceding fiscal year that includes all actual expenditures and remaining cash 18
-on hand." 19
-SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law. 20
+Page 2  DRH30215-LUa-85
+care services funding requirements under G.S. 143B-168.15(b), child care subsidy expansion 1
+requirements under G.S. 143B-168.15(g), or match requirements under Section 9D.5(d) of S.L. 2
+2023-134. 3
+SECTION 2.  G.S. 143B-168.15(h) reads as rewritten: 4
+"(h) The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., Special Fund is hereby established 5
+as an interest -bearing, nonreverting special fund in the Department of Health and Human 6
+Services. Funds appropriated from the General Fund to the Department for Smart Start and the 7
+North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. , (NCPC) shall be deposited in the Fund and shall 8
+be used by the NCPC and local partnership s exclusively for the purposes authorized in this 9
+section, unless otherwise expressly provided by law . State funds allocated to local partnerships 10
+that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available to the 11
+North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., to reallocate to local partnerships. Notwithstanding 12
+G.S. 147-86.11 or any other provision of law to the contrary, the NCPC shall be allowed to hold 13
+cash in excess of incurred expenditures at the end of each fiscal year up to five million dollars 14
+($5,000,000). Not later than August 1 of each year, the NCPC shall provide to the Department of 15
+Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education , a financial 16
+status report for the preceding fiscal year that includes all actual expenditures and remaining cash 17
+on hand." 18
+SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law. 19