NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1031

SENATE BILL 267

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEMOPHILIA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for fiscal year 1981-82 to be used for the treatment of hemophilia, including the blood products used in such treatment, at the medical facilities affiliated with the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and other facilities designated in the guidelines to be developed by the Department of Human Resources pursuant to Section 2 of this act.

Sec. 2. The Department of Human Resources shall develop guidelines by January 1, 1982, for the use of these funds to assist those persons who require continuing treatment with blood, blood derivatives, or manufactured pharmaceutical products to avoid crippling or other effects associated with hemophilia, but who are unable to pay for the entire cost of these services.

Sec. 3. The Department of Human Resources shall develop the guidelines required by Section 2 of this act in consultation with at least one representative of the following: North Carolina Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine (Hemophilia Programs).

Sec. 4. This act shall not obligate the General Assembly to provide any additional funds at any time.

Sec. 5. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.