GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 2328*

Short Title:  ECU MRI Unit Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Jones, Rogers, and Warner.
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Referred to:  Human Resources.
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June 6, 1990

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 92 OF CHAPTER 752 OF THE 1989 SESSION LAWS AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE MRI UNIT AT THE EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 92 of Chapter 752 of the 1989 Session Laws reads as rewritten: 
"Sec. 92. (a)	Effective July 1, 1989 funds appropriated to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for the East Carolina University School of Medicine for Medicare education shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	That portion of the Medicare reimbursement that can be identified as having been generated through the effort and at the expense of the School's Medical Faculty Practice Plan shall be transferred to the appropriate Medical Faculty Practice Plan account within the School; and
(2)	The remainder shall be transferred to a special nonreverting account within the School.
Funds deposited in the account pursuant to subdivision (2)	of this section shall be spent for nonrecurring items of equipment and facilities that are required to maintain the School of Medicine's teaching facilities within Pitt County Memorial Hospital and the Brody Medical Sciences Building.
(b)	All revenue heretofore or subsequently received by the East Carolina University School of Medicine Medical Faculty Practice Plan from patients or their health insurance companies for treatment received in the Radiation Therapy Facility shall be retained by the School's Medical Faculty Practice Plan and used to defray current operating expenses and for future support and enhancement of the facility.
(b1)	All funds heretofore or subsequently received by the East Carolina University School of Medicine from Pitt County Memorial Hospital for the lease of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) building and equipment shall be retained by the School of Medicine in a nonreverting account and expended to defray current operating expenses and for future support and enhancement of the MRI facility.
(c)	This section shall expire June 30, 1991."
Sec. 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of $160,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year to defray current operating expenses and for future support and enhancement of the MRI facility at East Carolina University.
Sec. 3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1990.