A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE MEDICAL EXAMINER SYSTEM, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT RECOVERY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, the sum of nine hundred seventy‑five thousand dollars ($975,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year and the sum of nine hundred seventy‑five thousand dollars ($975,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year.  Of these funds, the Division shall allocate three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) in each fiscal year to East Carolina University for personnel and operations in order to provide support for essential medical examiner services in the northeast region of the State.  The remaining six hundred twenty‑five thousand dollars ($625,000) in each fiscal year shall be used by the Division to support the medical examiner system as a whole by addressing chronic unmet needs at the central office.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.