A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE Department of Health and Human Services FOR A PILOT PROGRAM TO ENHANCE RECRUITMENT OF MINORITY STUDENTS INTO PHARMACY SchOOLS.
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 four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for the 2008-2009 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to maintain or continue a pilot program for the recruitment of minority students into pharmacy schools.  The pilot program shall include all pharmacy schools willing to participate as well as community colleges with equipment and incentives for students that might be pharmacy school candidates.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall report on the progress of the pilot program to the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, and the Fiscal Research Division, not later than March 1, 2008.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.