A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to Appropriate funds to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of facility services, to enhance fair and consistent application of the certificate of need law and the health planning process.
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 Facility Services, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to increase salary levels for key employees and to add additional personnel in order to enhance the fair and consistent application of the certificate of need law and the health planning process. 
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.