A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to restore single‑stream funding to local management entities/managed care organizations.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund the sum of thirty‑six million four hundred forty thousand eight hundred ninety‑five dollars ($36,440,895) in recurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year and the sum of thirty‑six million four hundred forty thousand eight hundred ninety‑five dollars ($36,440,895) in recurring funds for the 2020‑2021 fiscal year to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (DMH/DD/SAS), to be used for single‑stream funding. The DMH/DD/SAS shall allocate these recurring funds among the local management entities/managed care organizations (LME/MCOs) to restore the recurring reductions to the LME/MCOs that were required by Section 11F.2 of S.L. 2017‑57, as amended by Section 4 of S.L. 2017‑206 and Section 11F.1 of S.L. 2018‑5.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.