A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT expanding the use of FUNDS appropriated to the department of health and human services FOR HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Health and Human Services shall use a portion of the two million dollars ($2,000,000) appropriated to the Department's Division of Central Management and Support, for the health information exchange for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year, to fund the monthly operating expenses of the North Carolina Health Information Exchange, a nonprofit corporation, from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015.
SECTION 2.  Subsection (b) of Section 12A.2 of S.L. 2014‑100 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 12A.2.(b)  From the funds appropriated in this act to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Central Management and Support, for the health information exchange for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year, the Department shall allocate to the North Carolina Health Information Exchange (NCHIE), a nonprofit corporation, an amount  sufficient to represent (i) the monthly operating expenses of the NCHIE for the 2014‑2015 fiscal year and (ii) the State share for the maximum amount of approved federal matching funds for allowable Medicaid administrative costs related to the HIE Network."
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law or on June 30, 2015, whichever is earlier.