A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE MECKLENBURG COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR NURSES FOR ITS SCHOOL HEALTH PROGRAM.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Mecklenburg County Health Department the sum of one million four hundred ninety‑five thousand dollars ($1,495,000) for the 2003‑2004 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated for the Mecklenburg County Health Department School Health Program to hire additional school nurses. The additional nurses hired with these funds are needed to ensure compliance with immunization requirements, provide surveillance of incidents of communicable diseases, environmental risks, or bio‑terrorism occurrences, provide legally mandated services to children with health care needs, and for other purposes.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2003.