GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 555

Short Title:  School Nurse Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Watson; Adams, Aldridge, Alexander, Black, Buchanan, Church, Cole, Davis, Dickson, Earle, Easterling, Gardner, Gulley, Hackney, Hall, Hill, Howard, Hurley, Insko, Jeffus, McCombs, Moore, Morris, Mosley, Nye, Owens, Preston, Russell, Saunders, Sexton, Sherrill, Sutton, Wainwright, Warner, G. Wilson, and Yongue.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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March 20, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR SCHOOL NURSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  (a) There is appropriated from the General Fund to State Aid to Local School Administrative Units the sum of seven million eight hundred sixty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars ($7,868,800) for the 1997-98 fiscal year and the sum of seven million eight hundred sixty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars ($7,868,800) for the 1998-99 fiscal year for school nurses. The State Board of Education shall allocate these funds on the basis of one position for each 3,000 students in a local school administrative unit, with a minimum of one position per county.  The State Board of Education shall make these funds available to a local school administrative unit only after the unit has developed a plan for the use of the funds in collaboration with the local health department and local health care providers.
(b)	Local school administrative units may use these funds to contract with local health departments or other public or private providers for school nursing services.
(c)	The State Board of Education shall not grant a waiver for the use of these funds pursuant to G.S. 115C-105.26(a).
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.