GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SENATE BILL 58
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACt modifying the federal medical assistance percentages cuts in the 2010-2011 state budget.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
no reduction in medicaid provider rates to backfill fmap funds
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding Section 2.3 of S.L. 2010-31, as amended by Section 1.3 of S.L. 2010-123, neither the Director of the Budget nor the Department of Health and Human Services shall reduce reimbursement rates paid to service providers in the Medicaid program to backfill FMAP funds for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
no reduction in retirement system contributions to backfill fmap funds
SECTION 2. Effective July 1, 2010, Section 6(c) of S.L. 2009-16, as amended by Section 26.20(b) of S.L. 2009-451 and Section 2.3(h) of S.L. 2010-31, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 6.(c)
Effective July 1, 2010, the State's employer contribution rates budgeted for
reserves, retirement and related benefits as percentage of covered salaries for
the 2010-2011 fiscal year are: (i) nine and fifteen hundredths percent
(9.15%) ten and fifty-one hundredths percent (10.51%) - Teachers and
State Employees; plus one and thirty six hundredths percent (1.36%) to a
reserve in the Office of State Budget and Management to be transferred to the
Retirement System only if not needed as an adjustment as required by Section
2.3(b)(7) of Senate Bill 897, 2009 Regular Session; (ii) fourteen and
fifteen hundredths percent (14.15%) fifteen and fifty-one hundredths
percent (15.51%) - State Law Enforcement Officers; plus one and thirty
six hundredths percent (1.36%) to a reserve in the Office of State Budget and
Management to be transferred to the Retirement System only if not needed as an
adjustment as required by Section 2.3(b)(7) of Senate Bill 897, 2009 Regular
Session; (iii) twelve and twenty six hundredths percent (12.26%) -
University Employees' Optional Retirement System; (iv) twelve and twenty six
hundredths percent (12.26%) - Community College Optional Retirement Program;
(v) twenty and one hundredths percent (20.01%) - Consolidated Judicial
Retirement System; and (vi) four and ninety hundredths percent (4.90%) -
Legislative Retirement System. Each of the foregoing contribution rates
includes four and ninety hundredths percent (4.90%) for hospital and medical
benefits. The rate for Teachers and State Employees, State Law Enforcement
Officers, Community College Optional Retirement Program, and for the University
Employees' Optional Retirement Program includes fifty two hundredths percent
(0.52%) for the Disability Income Plan. The rates for Teachers and State
Employees and State Law Enforcement Officers include sixteen hundredths percent
(0.16%) for the Death Benefits Plan. The rate for State Law Enforcement Officers
includes five percent (5%) for Supplemental Retirement Income."
effective date
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 21st day of March, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Dale R. Folwell
Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011