GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999
SESSION LAW 1999-4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. Section 8 of S.L. 1998-1, Extra Session 1998, reads as rewritten:
"Section 8. Except for immunization, no State funds,
federal funds, or funds from any other source may be used under the Health Insurance
Program for Children established under this act to reimburse medical services
performed in school-based health clinic settings. The Executive
Administrator and Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State Employees'
Comprehensive Major Medical Plan shall conduct a survey of any claims paid by
the Plan's self-insured indemnity program during each of the last three plan
years. Any results of the survey shall be used by the Plan in conducting
a study of the array of medical services delivered in school-based settings and
whether or not such services should be eliminated, curtailed, or
expanded. No later than March 31, 1999, the Plan shall make its findings
and recommendations pursuant to this study known to the Committee on Employee
Hospital and Medical Benefits, the Joint Legislative Health Care Oversight
Committee, and the 1999 Session of the General Assembly."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of March, 1999.
s/ Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 3:10 p.m. this 18th day of March, 1999