A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that the state shall pay one hundred percent of the nonfederal share of medicaid costs phased in over a TEN‑YEAR period.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the county portion of the nonfederal share of the State Medical Assistance Program is reduced by one and five-tenths percent (1.5%) each fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2004, until the county portion of the nonfederal share, excluding administrative costs, equals zero percent (0%). Effective July 1, 2013, one hundred percent (100%) of the nonfederal share of the Medical Assistance Program, excluding administrative costs, shall be borne by the State.
SECTION 2.  Effective July 1, 2013, G.S. 108A‑54 reads as rewritten:
"§ 108A‑54.  Authorization of Medical Assistance Program.
The Department is authorized and empowered to establish a Medical Assistance Program from federal and State appropriations and to adopt rules and regulations under which payments are to be made in accordance with the provisions of this Part. "
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of forty‑nine million dollars ($49,000,000) for the 2004‑2005 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to offset the decrease in county contributions to the nonfederal share of the State Medical Assistance Program as required under Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 4.  Section 3 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2004.  The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law.