GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 299

Short Title:  Elderly and Disabled Medicaid Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Nye, Alexander; Adams, Earle, Ives, Sexton, Wainwright, and Wright.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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February 23, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO EXPAND MEDICAID COVERAGE TO ALL ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE WITH INCOMES AT OR BELOW ONE HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL, AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  Effective January 1, 1996, the Division of Medical Assistance, Department of Human Resources, shall provide Medicaid coverage to all elderly and disabled people who have incomes at or below the federal poverty level as determined annually.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Medical Assistance, Department of Human Resources, the sum of five million four hundred thirty-two thousand eighty-seven dollars ($5,432,087) for the last six months of the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of eleven million one hundred two thousand two hundred thirty-two dollars ($11,102,232) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to provide the State share needed to implement this act.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.