GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1109

Short Title:  Rural Health Recruitment Fund.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Forrester; Richardson, Walker, Marvin, Carpenter, Ballance, and Carter.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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June 2, 1992

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE OFFICE OF RURAL HEALTH, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, FOR THE RURAL HEALTH RECRUITMENT FUND.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Office of Rural Health, Department of Human Resources, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 1992-93 fiscal year to establish a general medicine recruitment fund, the purpose of which is to provide stipends for general medicine residents who elect to practice in underserved areas of North Carolina.
From these appropriated funds, the Office of Rural Health may pay residents in family medicine, internal medicine, or general pediatric medicine the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) upon the resident's agreeing to practice in an area designated by the Office of Rural Health as medically underserved.
Repayment of the stipend is forgiven if the resident completes the full year of service in a medically underserved area of North Carolina.
A resident is eligible to receive three consecutive payments from the fund.
The Office of Rural Health shall report annually to the General Assembly regarding the status of the fund.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1992.