A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide additional funding for various health care related needs in response to the covid‑19 pandemic.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  The State Controller shall transfer the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year from the Coronavirus Relief Reserve established under Section 2.1 of S.L. 2020‑4 to the Coronavirus Relief Fund under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020, P.L. 116‑136, established in Section 2.2 of that act.
SECTION 1.(b)  There is appropriated from the Coronavirus Relief Fund under the CARES Act to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2019‑2020 fiscal year for various health care needs related to public health and safety during the COVID‑19 pandemic.
SECTION 1.(c)  The funds appropriated in this section shall not revert at the end of the 2019‑2020 fiscal year but shall remain available to expend until December 30, 2020.
SECTION 2.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall provide a report to the House Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, and the Fiscal Research Division by March 1, 2021, detailing the use of funds appropriated under this act.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.