A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the board of governors of the university of north carolina to reimburse ecu's brody school of medicine for the provision of vital health care services.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to fund indigent care reimbursement for East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine.  This funding will partially compensate the School for the cost of providing significant levels of primary health care and other vital clinical services to uninsured patients in eastern North Carolina.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.