GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
S	1
SENATE BILL 699
     

 
Short Title:	Funds for Pneumococcal Vaccine.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Forrester, Purcell;  Dannelly and Kerr.	
Referred to:	Appropriations/Base Budget.	
March 26, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO MAKE PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL VACCINE PROGRAM.

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 six million two hundred sixty‑two thousand one hundred forty‑nine dollars ($6,262,149) for the 2001‑2002 fiscal year and the sum of six million two hundred sixty‑two thousand one hundred forty‑nine dollars ($6,262,149) for the 2002-2003 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to provide pneumococcal conjugate vaccine universally according to the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2001.