GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SECOND EXTRA SESSION 1996

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HOUSE BILL 24

Short Title:  HIV Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative H. Hunter.

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Referred to:  Rules, Calendar and Operations of the House.

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July 9, 1996

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO PROVIDE LIFE-SUSTAINING MEDICATION FOR ELIGIBLE PERSONS INFECTED WITH HIV.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, Division of Adult Health, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to provide life-sustaining medications for medically indigent, non-Medicaid eligible people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, as defined in rules adopted by the Commission for Health Services.
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1996.