AN ACT to allow a one‑time transfer of State funds to support excess program enrollment in the NC HEalth choice program.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall manage NC Health Choice program enrollment.  In the current State fiscal year, one‑time matching funds not to exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000) may be transferred to support State fiscal year 2002‑2003 program expenditures that are attributable to excess program enrollment.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of August, 2002.

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		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2002