A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to expand community care of north carolina, the managed care program in medicaid that has a disease management component, as recommended by the house select committee on the rising cost of health care.
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 three million one hundred eight thousand dollars ($3,108,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year to expand Community Care of North Carolina and draw down federal and local matching funds.  It is estimated that these expansion funds when matched with federal and local funds will expand Community Care of North Carolina by approximately ten million dollars ($10,000,000).
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2004.