GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 832

Short Title:  Traumatic Brain Injury/Medicaid Waiver.  	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Purcell, Kerr, and Hartsell.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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April 12, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO SUPPORT A HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED MEDICAID WAIVER FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of one million five hundred one thousand three hundred three dollars ($1,501,303) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of one million five hundred one thousand three hundred three dollars ($1,501,303) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.  These funds shall be used to match federal and local funds to support a Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver for approximately 100 individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury.  Of these funds, one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) in each fiscal year may be used for administrative support to manage the waiver.
Section 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.