A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTERS.
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 ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be allocated to federally qualified health centers to increase access to preventive and primary care services by uninsured or medically indigent patients in existing or new federally qualified health center locations and to increase capacity to serve the uninsured by enhancing or replacing facilities, equipment, or technologies.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.