GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1563

Short Title:  Rural Health Recruitment Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives R. Hunter; J. W. Crawford, Green, and Hardaway.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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June 3, 1992

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A RURAL HEALTH RECRUITMENT FUND.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. (a) There is established in the Office of Rural Health and Resource Development a general medicine physician recruitment fund to provide stipends for general medicine residents who elect to practice in underserved areas of the State.  From funds appropriated to it for this purpose, the Office of Rural Health and Resource Development may pay residents in family medicine, general internal medicine, or general pediatric medicine the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per resident upon the resident's agreeing to practice in an area designated by the Office of Rural Health and Resource Development as medically underserved.  If a resident receives a payment and does not complete a full year of service in a medically underserved area, that resident shall repay the entire amount by the end of that year.  If a resident receives a payment and does complete a full year of service in a medically underserved area, repayment is forgiven.  A resident may receive three consecutive payments for three consecutive years of residency.
The Secretary of the Department of Human Resources shall adopt rules to administer this fund.
The Office of Rural Health and Resource Development shall report annually to the General Assembly regarding the status of the fund and on its success in providing physicians for underserved areas of the State.
(b)	There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of Rural Health and Resource Development, Department of Human Resources, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 1992-93 fiscal year for the fund established in subsection (a) of this section.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1992.