A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT appropriating funds to the department of health and human services to provide a statewide integrated automation system for local health departments, the state laboratory for public health, and child developmental services agencies.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, the sum of five million seven hundred seventy thousand three hundred twenty-six dollars ($5,770,326) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to be used to provide an automated means of capturing, monitoring, reporting, and billing services that are provided in local health departments, the State Laboratory of Public Health, and children's developmental services agencies. This appropriation shall be added to funds held in Reserve Account 24430‑2117, in the amount of four hundred sixty-five thousand four hundred sixty‑nine dollars ($4,065,469), that local health departments generated to aid in the replacement of the failing legacy mainframe database program.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.