A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the board of governors of the university of north carolina to partially compensate brody school of medicine at east carolina university for medical care provided to indigent patients.
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) in recurring funds for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to be allocated to the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University as operating funds to partially compensate for the cost of providing significant levels of service to indigent patients.  Indigent patients are uninsured individuals with no means of payment who are not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid, and who cannot afford to pay commercial insurance premiums or for the medical service provided.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.