GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2025 S D SENATE BILL DRS35047-LUa-39 Short Title: Funds for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. (Public) Sponsors: Senators Hise and Burgin (Primary Sponsors). Referred to: *DRS35047 -LUa-39* A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1 AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR DOLLY PARTON 'S IMAGINATION LIBRARY. 2 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 3 SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of 4 Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education, the sum of 5 one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in recurring funds for each year of the 6 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to be allocated to the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., 7 for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, an early literacy program that mails age-appropriate 8 books to registered children on a monthly basis. 9 SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 10 FILED SENATE Feb 13, 2025 S.B. 98 PRINCIPAL CLERK