GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-4
SENATE BILL 26

AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PROHIBITION ON REIMBURSEMENT FOR SERVICES PROVIDED BY SCHOOL-BASED HEALTH CLINICS UNDER THE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 8 of S.L. 1998-1, Extra Session 1998, reads as rewritten:
"Section 8. The Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan shall conduct a survey of any claims paid by the Plan's self-insured indemnity program during each of the last three plan years.  Any results of the survey shall be used by the Plan in conducting a study of the array of medical services delivered in school-based settings and whether or not such services should be eliminated, curtailed, or expanded.  No later than March 31, 1999, the Plan shall make its findings and recommendations pursuant to this study known to the Committee on Employee Hospital and Medical Benefits, the Joint Legislative Health Care Oversight Committee, and the 1999 Session of the General Assembly."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of March, 1999.

s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 3:10 p.m. this 18th day of March, 1999