NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 1246
SENATE BILL 485

AN ACT TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS FOR GRADUATE NURSES WHO COMPLETE COURSES IN ACCREDITED SCHOOLS IN THE FIELD OF ANESTHESIA.

WHEREAS, there is a great shortage in the State of North Carolina of graduate nurses who are competent and skilled in the field of Anesthesiology and there is a great need in the State for graduate nurses who are skilled and reliable anesthetists; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to encourage graduate nurses to complete courses in Anesthesiology, and the people of the State are in great need of such services; that it is necessary to grant scholarships to graduate nurses to give them much needed aid and to make this branch of study convenient and attractive to such graduate nurses: Now, therefore,

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Article 13 of Chapter 131 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting immediately after G.S. 131-121.1 and immediately before G.S. 131-122 a new Section which shall be designated as "G.S. 131-121.2" and which shall read as follows:
"Sec. 131-121.2.  Scholarships for Graduate Nurses Who Complete Courses in Anesthesiology. The North Carolina Medical Care Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, in accordance with such rules and regulations as it may promulgate, to grant scholarships to graduate nurses who complete courses in the field of Anesthesiology in accredited schools for nurses in Anesthesia and who are enrolled in or accepted for enrollment in any of the accredited schools appropriate for this purpose. The scholarships herein provided shall be made to bona fide residents of this State who are graduate nurses and who agree in such contracts or agreements as may be formulated by the North Carolina Medical Care Commission to reside and render service in such field in North Carolina for a period of five (5) years after graduation from such accredited schools teaching courses in the field of Anesthesia. The said grant of scholarships shall be paid to such graduate nurses who apply to and are accepted by the North Carolina Medical Care Commission on the following basis: two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for the first month; fifty dollars ($50.00) a month for eleven (11) months; seventy‑five dollars ($75.00) per month for six (6) months. The said scholarship payments may be arranged by the North Carolina Medical Care Commission in such manner and to suit the conditions of the graduate nurses who are accepted for this purpose, and in the event any graduate nurse fails or refuses to complete the course herein provided in an accredited school for nurses in the field of Anesthesia, then such graduate nurse shall be required to refund or pay back to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission the total amount of funds advanced to her in the form of scholarships at the rate of interest of six per cent (6%) per annum. The North Carolina Medical Care Commission shall determine what schools are properly accredited and are available to graduate nurses who wish to study and complete a course or courses in the field of Anesthesiology. Any refunding or repayment of scholarship funds advanced under this Section shall again be used for scholarships for the purposes herein provided."
Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated to the North Carolina Medical Care Commission out of the General Fund of the State, or any other available State fund, the sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, and the sum of forty thousand dollars ($40,000.00) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, to be used for providing the scholarships and carrying out the purposes of this Act.
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1963.