GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

S	1 

SENATE BILL 281

Short Title:  GPAC/MH/CB Initiatives.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Martin of Guilford.
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Referred to:  Government Performance Audit.
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February 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT A RECOMMENDATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AUDIT COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP A MULTIYEAR PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPLEMENT A SINGLE STREAM OF FUNDING SYSTEM FOR THE STATE'S MENTAL HOSPITALS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Effective July 1, 1993, the Department of Human Resources shall begin expanding community-based services and downsizing institutional services for the mentally ill.  In order to accomplish this goal, the Department shall develop and implement a multiyear pilot program to implement a single stream of funding system for the State's mental hospitals.  The program shall include a gradual transfer of funds from the mental hospitals to the community area mental health authorities concomitant with the transfer to the area authorities of the responsibility of providing appropriate services to those persons in need of hospitalization and the implementation of a single portal of entry State policy for all admissions to the mental hospitals.  The pilot program shall provide technical assistance to area authorities to prepare them for the implementation of the single stream of funding system.
Sec. 2.  For each fiscal year of the 1993-95 fiscal biennium, three million seven hundred thousand dollars ($3,700,000) shall be transferred from the continuation budget of the mental hospitals to community area mental health authorities to expand community-based mental health services during the multiyear pilot programs's existence.
Sec. 3.  It is the intent of the General Assembly to continue to transfer three million seven hundred thousand dollars ($3,700,000) from the continuation budget of the mental hospitals to community area mental health authorities in each remaining fiscal year of the multiyear pilot program's existence.
Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1993.