GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

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SENATE BILL 1016*

Short Title:  Fully Fund State Health Plan.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Dalton; and Martin of Pitt.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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April 15, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO FULLY FUND THE TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES' COMPREHENSIVE MAJOR MEDICAL PLAN.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Public Employee Health Benefit Fund the sum of one hundred twenty-nine million dollars ($129,000,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of one hundred seventy-two million dollars ($172,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to fully fund the employee-only premium for the Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan so as to pay claims and preserve benefits.
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Public Employee Health Benefit Fund the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to fully fund the employee-only premium for the Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan so as to pay claims and preserve benefits.
Section 3.  Additional appropriations to the Public Employee Health Benefit Fund of twenty-one million dollars ($21,000,000) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and twenty-seven million dollars ($27,000,000) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year will need to also be made from other special funds to cover employees paid from those funds.
Section 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.