NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 920

HOUSE BILL 914

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE PAYMENT TO SKILLED NURSING HOMES FROM TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($25.00) A DAY TO TWENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS ($28.00) A DAY.

 

Whereas, skilled nursing homes have long played a significant role in the health and well-being of citizens in all communities throughout North Carolina; and

Whereas, the continued existence of these skilled nursing homes is vital to the health and well-being of all of North Carolina's citizens both now and in the future; and

Whereas, the current pressure created by an inflationary economy jeopardizes the proper operation and maintenance of these skilled nursing homes; and

Whereas, the General Assembly of North Carolina believes that the protection and health care offered to citizens of North Carolina by these skilled nursing homes is desirable and in the public interest; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The maximum allowable payment to skilled nursing homes is increased from twenty-five dollars ($25.00) a day to twenty-eight dollars ($28.00) a day. To provide for this increase, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State, to the Department of Human Resources in addition to all other funds that may have been appropriated for this purpose, the sum of five hundred ninety-four thousand dollars ($594,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1975, and the sum of six hundred nine thousand dollars ($609,000) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1976.

Sec. 2.  Section 12 of Chapter 875 of the 1975 Session Laws is amended by deleting the figure twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and inserting in lieu thereof the figure twenty-eight dollars ($28.00) to provide for an increased payment rate for skilled nursing facilities.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1975.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of June, 1975.