NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1004

HOUSE BILL 156

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HOSPITAL PROGRAMS OF NURSING EDUCATION LEADING TO DIPLOMAS IN NURSING.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Board of Education from the General Fund of the State the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) for the 1967-69 biennium to provide financial assistance to hospital programs of nursing education leading to diplomas in nursing. Any of these funds not expended by the Board during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, shall be available to the Board for expenditure for this purpose during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. To qualify for financial assistance under this Act a program must be conducted by an educational unit in nursing which is fully accredited by the North Carolina Board of Nursing and which is operated under the authority of a public or nonprofit hospital licensed by the North Carolina Medical Care Commission. The State Board of Education each year of the .biennium shall distribute sums to eligible educational units in nursing or hospitals, upon their application for financial assistance, on the basis of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each student duly enrolled in the program as of December 1 of the preceding year and on the condition that accreditation is maintained. The Board shall make such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and to insure that this financial assistance is used directly for faculty and instructional needs of diploma nursing programs and not for religious or other non-public purposes.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1967.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 29th day of June, 1967.