AN ACt modifying the federal medical assistance percentages cuts in the 2010‑2011 state budget.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

no reduction in medicaid provider rates to backfill fmap funds
SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding Section 2.3 of S.L. 2010‑31, as amended by Section 1.3 of S.L. 2010‑123, neither the Director of the Budget nor the Department of Health and Human Services shall reduce reimbursement rates paid to service providers in the Medicaid program to backfill FMAP funds for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year.
no reduction in retirement system contributions to backfill fmap funds
SECTION 2.  Effective July 1, 2010, Section 6(c) of S.L. 2009‑16, as amended by Section 26.20(b) of S.L. 2009‑451 and Section 2.3(h) of S.L. 2010‑31, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 6.(c)  Effective July 1, 2010, the State's employer contribution rates budgeted for reserves, retirement and related benefits as percentage of covered salaries for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year are: (i)ten and fifty‑one hundredths percent (10.51%) – Teachers and State Employees; (ii)fifteen and fifty‑one hundredths percent (15.51%) – State Law Enforcement Officers; (iii) twelve and twenty six hundredths percent (12.26%) – University Employees' Optional Retirement System; (iv) twelve and twenty six hundredths percent (12.26%) – Community College Optional Retirement Program; (v) twenty and one hundredths percent (20.01%) – Consolidated Judicial Retirement System; and (vi) four and ninety hundredths percent (4.90%) – Legislative Retirement System. Each of the foregoing contribution rates includes four and ninety hundredths percent (4.90%) for hospital and medical benefits. The rate for Teachers and State Employees, State Law Enforcement Officers, Community College Optional Retirement Program, and for the University Employees' Optional Retirement Program includes fifty two hundredths percent (0.52%) for the Disability Income Plan. The rates for Teachers and State Employees and State Law Enforcement Officers include sixteen hundredths percent (0.16%) for the Death Benefits Plan. The rate for State Law Enforcement Officers includes five percent (5%) for Supplemental Retirement Income."

effective date
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of March, 2011.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Dale R. Folwell
	 Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved 5:07 p.m. this 31st day of March, 2011