GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
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HOUSE BILL 563

 
 
Short Title:	Funds for NC Health Choice Enrollment.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Baddour;  Alexander, Barefoot, Cox, Insko, Jarrell, Luebke, Russell, Wainwright, and Weiss.	
Referred to:	Appropriations.	
March 12, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to maximize federal funds to serve additional children under the HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN (nC health choice).

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 seven million nine hundred eighty thousand dollars ($7,980,000) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year and the sum of twelve million four hundred forty thousand dollars ($12,440,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to maximize federal funds to provide services under the Health Insurance Program for Children (NC Health Choice) to 82,000 children.
SECTION 2.  The total amount of State funds expended for the Health Insurance Program for Children (NC Health Choice) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year and the 2002‑2003 fiscal year shall not exceed the amount of State funds appropriated to match federal funds for the Program in each of those fiscal years.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.