AN ACT appropriating funds to continue child care stabilization grants.

Whereas, funding for child care stabilization grants is running out; and

Whereas, the State continues to face a child care staffing and budget crisis; and

Whereas, child care facilities in this State need to be staffed to allow parents to work and keep the economy going; Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education, the sum of six hundred seventy‑nine million dollars ($679,000,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022‑2023 fiscal year to provide continued funding for child care stabilization grants consistent with similar grants distributed in accordance with Section 3.2(a) of S.L. 2021‑25. To receive funding under this section, a grant recipient shall submit a report to the Division on the efficacy of the grant funds within in one year from the date the recipient receives those funds.

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2022.