GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1174

Short Title:  Long-Term Care Reform Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Perdue.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 20, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT LONG-TERM CARE SYSTEM REFORM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  (a) There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Aging, the sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) for the 1998-99 fiscal year to support long-term care system reform by  providing staff support and technology to implement automated screening and assessment tools and to enhance the use of automated data among State agencies.  The Division shall develop and implement a grant process to counties to support long-term care system reform and should emphasize multicounty systems serving both physically disabled and elderly adults in the awarding grants.
(b) The Department of Health and Human Services shall report to the Chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees and the Chairs of the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Health and Human Services on the process undertaken for determining how the funds appropriated in this act will be allocated by November 1, 1998. 
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1998.