GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1091

Short Title:  NC Physician Fellows Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Daniel.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 10, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA PHYSICIAN FELLOWS PROGRAM.
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 five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to be used to establish and administer the North Carolina Physician Fellows Program to support the development of primary care physicians in North Carolina.  The Department of Human Resources shall provide up to fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in scholarship funds, payable over four years, to at least 10 individuals entering North Carolina's medical schools.  Individuals receiving scholarship funds shall be required to serve as primary care physicians in rural and underserved areas of North Carolina.  The scholarships are to be awarded according to procedures established by the Department of Human Resources, Office of Rural Health and Resource Development.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.