GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1000

Short Title:  Limit Inmate Health Care.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Allran, East, Davis, Webster, Carpenter, Little, Forrester, Cochrane, Kincaid, McDaniel, Simpson, Foxx, Carrington, Ballantine, Blackmon, and Shaw.

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Referred to:  Children and Human Resources

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May 4, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PLACE A LIMIT ON THE LEVEL OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDED TO INMATES BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 148-19(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The general policies, rules and regulations of the Department of Correction shall prescribe standards for health services to prisoners, which shall include preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic measures on both an outpatient and a hospital basis, for all types of patients.  These standards shall not exceed the health services covered by the benefits provided under the Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan, except to the extent necessary to provide adequate dental care not covered under the Plan.  A prisoner may be taken, when necessary, to a medical facility outside the State prison system. The Department of Correction shall seek the cooperation of public and private agencies, institutions, officials and individuals in the development of adequate health services to prisoners."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.