Resolution Number: 2000-D002
Title: Appropriate Funds for Parental Programs at Historically Black Colleges
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred as Substituted
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 73rd General Convention approve a separate item in the Program budget, in addition to the regularly budgeted appropriation for St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia and Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina, in the total amount of $150,000.00 per annum ($75,000.00 for each college) for each year of the 2001-2003 triennium ($450,000 total), to fund their Single Parent/Mother Support Programs for services such as daycare and housing.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 206.

Legislative History

Author:
Originating House: House of Deputies
Originating Committee: Committee on Education

House of Deputies

Original Text of Resolution:

(D002)

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 73rd General Convention approve a separate item in the Program budget for St. Paul's and Voorhees Colleges in the total amount of $150,000.00 ($75,000.00 for each college) for each year of the 2001-2003 triennium to fund their Single Parent/Mother Support Programs.

Committee Substitute:

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 73rd General Convention approve a separate item in the Program budget, in addition to the regularly budgeted appropriation for St. Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia and Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina, in the total amount of $150,000.00 per annum ($75,000.00 for each college) for each year of the 2001-2003 triennium ($450,000 total), to fund their Single Parent/Mother Support Programs for services such as daycare and housing.

Motion carried

Substitute resolution adopted

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #65)

House of Bishops

The House of Bishops Committee on Education presented its Report #18 on HD Message #65 on Resolution D002 (Historically Black Colleges Single Parent Programs Funding) and moved concurrence.

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #101)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 8.

Abstract:   The 73rd General Convention appropriates additional funds for the Single Parent/Mother Support Programs at historically Black Colleges.