A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to increase the medicaid rate for personal care services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall increase the Medicaid PCS (Personal Care Services) rate for low-income seniors in Alzheimer's Special Care units effective July 1, 2006.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Medical Assistance, the sum of eight hundred fifty thousand dollars ($850,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to increase the Medicaid PCS rate as provided in Section 1 of this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.