GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1067

Short Title:  Medicaid Applications Staff.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Hunt of Durham and Richardson.
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Referred to:  Ways and Means.
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May 1, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO HIRE MEDICAID WORKERS IN THE COUNTY DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIAL SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Division of Medical Assistance, $2,500,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and $2,750,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated among the county departments of social services to pay the nonfederal cost of employing additional personnel needed to take and process applications for the Medicaid program; provided, these funds shall be allocated only among those counties which continue to appropriate for this purpose an amount of county funds equal to the amount of county funds appropriated for this purpose during the 1988-89 fiscal year; and, provided further, each county shall receive an amount of money which, combined with federal matching funds, is at least sufficient to employ one full-time Medicaid eligibility worker in that county.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.