GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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HOUSE BILL 139*

Short Title:        Dentistry Funds for Special Care Populations.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Farmer‑Butterfield, Bordsen, Pierce, Mobley (Primary Sponsors);  Adams, K. Alexander, M. Alexander, Bryant, Cotham, Current, England, Faison, Fisher, E. Floyd, Glazier, Harrison, Insko, Jones, Luebke, McLawhorn, Tarleton, Tolson, Wainwright, Weiss, and Wray.
Referred to:	Aging, if favorable, Appropriations.

February 12, 2009

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds to the division of public HeaLth, department of health and human services, for the purchase of additional mobile dental units, as recommended by the North carolina study commission on aging.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Human Services, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year, and the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year, to be used by a new or existing nonprofit mobile dental care provider to purchase an additional mobile dental unit to serve special care populations, the frail elderly, and individuals with disabilities, in geographic areas of the State that are not currently served by mobile dental units. 

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.