GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 1696

Short Title:  Hemophilia Assistance Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Duncan, S. Thompson; and Bowman.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 5, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO HELP PAY FOR THE SUDDEN AND ASTRONOMICAL INCREASES IN THE COST OF HEMOPHILIA TREATMENT BROUGHT ON BY THE EFFORT TO MAKE SUCH PRODUCTS SAFE FROM BLOOD-BORNE DISEASES LIKE HEPATITIS AND AIDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources $2,500,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and $2,500,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year to treat and to provide blood products for the treatment of patients severely affected with hemophilia, who are served through the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, the Duke University School of Medicine, the East Carolina University School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and Charlotte Memorial Hospital.
Sec. 2.  Payments through the Hemophilia Assistance Plan are exempt from the North Carolina Medical Assistance Program reimbursement rates because of the astronomical costs of blood products.
Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.