GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 1380
     

 
Short Title:	Funds for Medical Child Care Centers.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Nye; and Barefoot.	
Referred to:	Appropriations.	
April 26, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to establish a pilot program for the creation of medical child care centers and to appropriate funds for this purpose.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year and the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year to establish a pilot program for medical child care centers.  A "medical child care center" is a child care center as that term is defined in G.S. 110‑86 that provides services to children who have major medical needs and who require ongoing medical support.  The Division of Child Development, the Division of Early Intervention and Education, the Division of Public Health, and the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc., shall work collaboratively to develop the pilot program.  The pilot program may operate up to four medical child care centers.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.