GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 1462

Short Title:  Funds/Asthma Mgmt.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Miller.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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May 28, 1998

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO ESTABLISH A PILOT SCHOOL-BASED ASTHMA MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of one million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000) for the 1998-99 fiscal year to establish a pilot school-based asthma management and control program.  Funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$1,250,000 to establish not fewer than 10 school-based asthma management and control projects.  To the extent possible, the Department shall fund at least one pilot school-based asthma management and control project in each of the six service areas of the American Lung Association of North Carolina.  The Department shall assure that pilot projects appropriately involve local public and private schools, local health departments, the American Lung Association of North Carolina and other key stakeholders in the governance, implementation, and monitoring of the pilot projects.  The Department shall give priority consideration for funding to pilot projects that include two or more local health departments and two or more local schools as active project service sites.
(2)	$150,000 for staff and operating costs of a statewide school-based asthma management and control coalition that includes the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Public Instruction, the American Lung Association of North Carolina/American Thoracic Society, The North Carolina Medical Society, The Old North State Medical Society, The North Carolina Pediatric Society, The School Health Nurses Association, private elementary and secondary schools, the pharmaceutical industry, other public and private organizations, and the general public.  The coalition shall advise the Department on the nature, scope, and content of the services to be provided by the pilot projects, criteria for selecting pilot projects, performance measures for the overall program, and program monitoring and accountability.
Section 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1998.