NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1113

SENATE BILL 208

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND OTHER ERRORS OF METABOLISM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  In addition to all other appropriations made to the State Board of Health by the 1963 General Assembly, there is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State to said Board the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500.00) for the fiscal year, July 1, 1963-June 30, 1964, and twelve thousand five hundred dollars ($12,500.00) for the fiscal year, July 1, 1964-June 30, 1965, to be used by said Board to provide medical assistance for certain victims of certain inborn errors of metabolism including but not by way of limitation cystic fibrosis. Such assistance shall be furnished only to persons under twenty-one years of age who are medically indigent and have been so certified by appropriate Welfare Department officials. Such funds shall be administered under such reasonable rules and regulations as the State Board of Health may deem expedient and wise.

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.