GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 994
     

 
Short Title:	TBI Medicaid Waiver.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Earle;  Barefoot, Russell, and Wainwright.	
Referred to:	Health.	
April 5, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DIRECT THE Department of Health and Human Services TO REQUEST APPROVAL FOR A MEDICAID WAIVER FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY SERVICES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall develop and seek approval from the Health Care Financing Administration for a Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver for individuals with traumatic brain injury. If the waiver is granted, the Department shall not implement the waiver unless the implementation is approved and enacted by the General Assembly, and funds are appropriated for that purpose. The Department shall report the status of the waiver to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Human Resources and the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services on October 1, 2001, and March 1, 2002.  The report shall include the estimated amount of funds needed to implement the waiver.  Nothing in this act obligates the General Assembly to appropriate funds to implement a Medicaid waiver granted by the federal government for the purposes stated in this act.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.