A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO PURCHASE ESSENTIAL VACCINES FOR CHILDREn, TO assure FLU VACCINES FOR HIGH-RISK POPULATIONS, AND to purchase antiviral medications.
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 twenty‑eight million eight hundred sixty‑two thousand five hundred sixty‑two dollars ($28,862,562) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year, to be allocated as follows:
(1)	Fifteen million six hundred thousand dollars ($15,600,000) to be used for the purchase of essential vaccines for children.
(2)	Six hundred sixty-two thousand five hundred sixty-two dollars ($662,562) to be used to assure flu vaccine for high-risk populations.
(3)	Twelve million six hundred thousand dollars ($12,600,000) to be used to purchase antiviral medications.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.