GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 1530

Short Title:  Child Abuse Medical Evaluation Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Barnes.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 2, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE CHILD ABUSE MEDICAL/MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION PROGRAM. 
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Social Services, $320,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and $220,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year for the Child Medical/Mental Health Evaluation program, to cover increased service costs incurred in providing fifty percent (50%) more mental health evaluations and fourteen percent (14%) more medical evaluations, in increasing medical examination payments to cover the increasingly complex and sophisticated examinations and assessments required by sexual abuse cases, and in expanding educational services for health professionals, social workers, lawyers, judges, and law enforcement officers.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.