GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 794

Short Title:  Funds for Medical Evaluations.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Winner; Cooper, Dannelly, Martin of Guilford, and Rand.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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April 10, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO COMPENSATE PHYSICIANS FOR PERFORMING MEDICAL EVALUATIONS OF CHILDREN WHO ARE SUSPECTED OF HAVING BEEN ABUSED OR NEGLECTED, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE CHILD FATALITY TASK FORCE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Social Services, the sum of four hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($425,000) for the 1997-98 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($425,000) for the 1998-99 fiscal year to be allocated by the Department to compensate physicians with special training to perform medical evaluations of children who are suspected of having been abused or neglected.
Section 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.