GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	1 

SENATE BILL 215

Short Title:  ECU Receipt Fund Use.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Warren, Martin of Pitt; Sherron, Plexico, and Cooper.
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Referred to:  Finance.
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March 7, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO SPECIFY THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR THE EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOR MEDICARE EDUCATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  (a) Effective July 1, 1991, 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 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 to the account pursuant to subdivision (2) of this act 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 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.
(c) All funds subsequently received by the East Carolina University School of Medicine for 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.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1991, and expires June 30, 1993.