GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1142

Short Title:  State-Required Vaccines Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Johnson.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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May 12, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE STATE-MANDATED VACCINES WITHOUT CHARGE TO PHYSICIANS AND LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Notwithstanding G.S. 130A-433, the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources shall provide, without charge, vaccines for immunizations required by G.S. 130A-152 to physicians who are licensed to practice medicine in this State and who administer these required immunizations as authorized under G.S. 130A-153, and to local health departments that administer these required immunizations as authorized under G.S. 130A-153.  A physician who receives vaccines from the State without charge shall not charge the patient for the vaccine, but may charge a reasonable fee for the administration of the vaccine. 
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 1993-94 fiscal year and the sum of ten million nine hundred thousand dollars ($10,900,000) for the 1994-95 fiscal year to implement this act.
Sec. 3.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective January 1, 1994.  Section 2 of this act becomes effective July 1, 1993.