GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2002-100

SENATE BILL 901

AN ACT to allow a one-time transfer of State funds to support excess program enrollment in the NC HEalth choice program.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services shall manage NC Health Choice program enrollment.  In the current State fiscal year, one-time matching funds not to exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000) may be transferred to support State fiscal year 2002-2003 program expenditures that are attributable to excess program enrollment.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29^th day of August, 2002.

                                                                    s/ Marc Basnight

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

                                                                    s/ James B. Black

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved 4:00 p.m. this 29^th day of August, 2002