GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 1581

Short Title:  Rural Health Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Nye; Flaherty, Gottovi, Bowman, McLawhorn, Sexton, and Ives.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 25, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE RESIDENT STIPEND PROGRAM OF THE OFFICE OF RURAL HEALTH AND RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources, Office of Rural Health and Resource Development, the sum of nine hundred thousand dollars ($900,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to expand and promote the resident stipend program.
These funds shall be used to increase the number of stipends for medical students who agree to practice medicine in rural and underserved areas of the State under the program supervised by the Office of Rural Health and Resource Development.  
Of the funds appropriated, a maximum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) may be used to recruit out-of-State medical students who agree to practice medicine in rural and underserved areas of the State and to meet the other requirements of the program.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.