GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1241

Short Title:  Hemophilia Assistance Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Hunt of Durham and Cochrane.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 9, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO HELP PAY FOR THE INCREASED COST OF HEMOPHILIA TREATMENT RESULTING FROM EFFORTS TO MAKE THE TREATMENT SAFE FROM BLOOD-BORNE DISEASES SUCH AS 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 the sum of $2,500,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and the sum of $2,500,000 for the 1990-91 fiscal year to be used to provide better and safer treatment, including the blood products used in those treatments, of patients severely affected by hemophilia, who are served through the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and Charlotte Memorial Hospital.  These funds are in addition to any other funds appropriated to the Department of Human Resources for the treatment of hemophilia patients.
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.