A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to the department of public safety, health services, to fund one full‑time SOCIAL RESEARCH SPECIALIST III to analyze datA on inmate health care, AS RECOMMENDED BY the Joint Legislative program evaluation Committee.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Safety, Health Services, the sum of eighty‑two thousand one hundred fifteen dollars ($82,115) in recurring funds for the 2019‑2021 fiscal biennium to fund one full‑time Social Research Specialist III, or equivalent job classification, who shall be responsible for combining and analyzing data on inmate health care, including encounters by health services staff within prisons, claims data from contracted providers, and purchasing information for pharmaceuticals and supplies, for the purpose of identifying factors that increase inmate health care costs and ways in which the Department can limit those factors. The Social Research Specialist III shall report directly to the Director of the Division of Health Services.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2019.