A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the board of governors of the university of north carolina to develop implementation plans to expand the State's public medical schools.
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 2008‑2009 fiscal year to develop implementation plans to expand the State's public medical schools.  The proposed expansion will help address the shortage and distribution of physicians in North Carolina and the issues of both distribution of primary care and specialty care throughout the State.  The funds appropriated by this act shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$2,000,000 shall be allocated to East Carolina University.
(2)	$2,500,000 shall be allocated to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
(3)	$500,000 shall be allocated to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.