NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 573

HOUSE BILL 591

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT COUNTIES SHALL PAY CERTAIN BENEFITS FOR NURSING HOME CARE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  Any provisions in any appropriation act for the 1973-74 fiscal year to the contrary notwithstanding, all allowable costs during the 1973-75 biennium for nursing home care for the medically needy or categorically needy, in excess of eighteen dollars and fifty cents ($18.50) per day, to the extent of the nonfederal portion of such excess costs, shall be paid by the counties for their eligible recipients; provided, however, that total allowable costs to be paid shall not exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day.

Sec. 2.  Chapter 1242 of the Session Laws of 1971 providing for the payment of certain nursing home benefits by the counties is hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1973.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of May, 1973.