NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1164

SENATE BILL 23

 

 

AN ACT TO MAKE AN APPROPRIATION TO THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONTINUING SUPPORT OF THE LABORATORY FOR SCREENING OF METABOLIC DISEASES OF NEWBORN INFANTS.

 

WHEREAS, there has been established in the State Board of Health a laboratory for the screening of metabolic diseases of newborn infants; and

WHEREAS, a major function of such laboratory is to screen patients whose metabolic diseases, such as phenylketonuria (PKU), may result in eventual, mental retardation; and

WHEREAS, it is the purpose of the State Board of Health to make the services of this laboratory available for the benefit of all children born in the State of North Carolina; and

WHEREAS, it is of utmost importance that this laboratory program be continued: Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the State Board of Health for the purpose of operating, maintaining, equipping, and making necessary repairs to its laboratory for the screening of metabolic diseases of newborn infants the sum of forty-three thousand five hundred thirty-nine dollars ($43,539.00) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1965 and ending June 30, 1966, and the sum of forty-four thousand two hundred sixty-nine dollars ($44,269.00) for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1966 and ending June 30, 1967.

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  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective July 1, 1965.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 17th day of June, 1965.